>Hello John,
>
>On Jul 28, 2009, at 11:57 AM, John Baltutis wrote:
>
>>On 7/27/09,  Nobumi Iyanaga <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>...
>>>As I have many messages (more than a thousand) in my Inbox, I would
>>>not need to do this process for the entire Inbox (and that would take
>>>a very long time). What I would really need is to know how to get the
>>>"selected message" in the Inbox. Conceptually, I think the script
>>>would be something like this:
>>>
>>>tell application "Mail"
>>>	tell Inbox
>>>		set the_start to selected message
>>>		set last_one to the_start
>>>		set the_start to next message of the_start
>>>		repeat with i from the_start to last message
>>>			if contents of last_one is same as contents of i
>>>				delete last_one
>>>			end if
>>>			set last_one to i
>>>		end repeat
>>>	end tell
>>>end tell
>>>
>>>Of course, I have not tested this "concept script", but it would help
>>>you to understand what I would like to achieve.
>>>
>>>Could any of you indicate me how to write this script?
>>>
>>>Thank you very much in advance!
>>
>>Check the Archives at
>><http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/applescript-users>
>
>Thank you for this info. I could find a message in archive in which a script:
>
>tell application "Mail"
>	set theSel to selection
>	set msg1 to item 1 of theSel
>end tell
>
>works for getting the id, the mail box and the account of the 
>selected message. I can also get the "content" of the message.
>
>But how can I do a loop from the currently selected message until 
>the last message? I tried to do:
>
>tell application "Mail"
>	set the_last to last message of account "my_account" of mailbox "INBOX"
>end tell
>
>but this returns the error message: "Mail got an error: Can't make 
>last message of account "my_account" of mailbox "INBOX" into type 
>reference."
>

Don';t know the syntax in Mail, but what I use in Eudora is

set theLast to (count of messages of mailbox "In")

Then loop from msg1 to theLast.

-- 

Bill Steele
[log in to unmask]