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AppleScript of exporting unread emails and attachments to a folder
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set theOutputFolder to (choose folder) as string | |
tell application "Mail" | |
set theMessages to (messages of mailbox "mailbox name" of account "account name" whose read status is false) | |
repeat with theMessage in theMessages | |
try | |
set theSender to extract name from sender of theMessage | |
set {year:y, month:m, day:d, hours:h, minutes:min, seconds:s} to theMessage's date sent | |
set subFolder to ("" & theSender & " " & y & my pad(m as integer) & my pad(d) & "T" & my pad(h) & my pad(min) & my pad(s)) | |
tell application "Finder" | |
if not (exists folder subFolder of folder theOutputFolder) then | |
make new folder at theOutputFolder with properties {name:subFolder} | |
end if | |
end tell | |
set subFolder to theOutputFolder & subFolder & ":" | |
set body to content of theMessage | |
set theFile to subFolder & "content.txt" | |
set theFileID to open for access file theFile with write permission | |
write body to theFileID | |
close access theFileID | |
repeat with theAttachment in theMessage's mail attachments | |
set theAttachmentName to name of theAttachment | |
set theSavePath to subFolder & theAttachmentName | |
save theAttachment in theSavePath | |
end repeat | |
set read status of theMessage to true | |
end try | |
end repeat | |
end tell | |
on pad(n) | |
return text -2 thru -1 of ("00" & n) | |
end pad |
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