On 7/27/09,  Nobumi Iyanaga <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I would like to write an AppleScript script which will delete
> duplicated messages from my Mail.app Inbox, from a certain point
> until the last one.
>
> Here is my situation:
> I have two computers that I use daily, one at home and another at
> work. One runs OS 10.4.11 and the other OS 10.5.7 (?). I want to
> synchronize the contents of Mails in these two computers -- not only
> for the InBox, but for all the mail boxes.
>
> Before, I used to use two computers of the same OS version (10.4.11),
> and I could achieve my goal doing a backup and restore of the
> contents of ~/Library/Mail/ via a portable harddisk. Now, with two
> computers of different OS, this does not work perfectly: when I open
> Mail.app, the contents are the same, but when I download new mails,
> Mail.app downloads the messages which are already there, so I have to
> delete duplicated messages from the InBox.
>
> 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!

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