Mailbox selection

hi,

i wanted to know which folder is selected in mail.app. but i won;t
able to get this information. While in entourage i would be able to
get selected folder. can anybody tell me how would i get this
information.

For example: i have created 1 folder test on my mac container, now i
want to check wether this folder is selected or not.

[applescript]
tell application "Mail"
--make new mailbox with properties {name:"test"}
--tell mailboxes
set theselected to the selection
return theselected as string
--end tell
end tell
[/applescript]

regards,
anni

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<62fc5a54-970a-43ba-b625-7abac803b808.DeleteThis@r24g2000prr.googlegroups.com>,
anni <coolanil.saini.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:

> i wanted to know which folder is selected in mail.app. but i won;t
> able to get this information. While in entourage i would be able to
> get selected folder. can anybody tell me how would i get this
> information.
>
> For example: i have created 1 folder test on my mac container, now i
> want to check wether this folder is selected or not.

Do you know how to examine Applescript dictionaries? (Run Script Editor,
choose File > Open Dictionary, and select Mail in the list.)

If you take a look at the Mail dictionary, you'll see that Mail has a
"message viewer" class. The message viewer class has this property:

selected mailboxes (list of mailbox) : List of mailboxes currently
selected in the list of mailboxes

So you'll want to read the "selected mailboxes" property of the main
"message viewer". I tried this and it works. There are a few ways to
write it:

-- begin script
tell application "Mail"

--method #1:
tell the front message viewer
set selFolders to the selected mailboxes
end tell

-- method #2:
set selFolders to the selected mailboxes of the front message viewer

-- method #3:
set selFolders to the front message viewer's selected mailboxes

end tell
-- end script

Enjoy

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