Search Subject line in Apple Mail from text string provided

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#1

Hi,
I’m looking to take a string of text from another program, open Mail, and set the search area line of mail with the clipboard contents (or field fed from a database).
This would be the same thing as human copies a text string, and pastes in into the search field at top of Mail window as “subject includes”, and be left with a list of emails to peruse, likely a singe conversation thread.

I looked at the post id=26365 that returns the subject results as text or series of .EML files to process, but couldn’t rework into above. That was the closest searching the forum yielded.

I plan to include the option to specify the mailbox, or smartmailbox name, instead of Inbox. Maybe work in some smarter search elements, but for start I just hope to have “1234” as subject content (not date, nor sender).
Thanks!

#2

This should help you get started.


set theSearch to the clipboard as text

activate application "Mail"

	tell application "System Events"
		tell process "Mail"
			tell window 1
				keystroke "f" using {command down, option down}
				keystroke (theSearch)
			end tell
		end tell
	end tell
#3

Hi. The problem with using the search field in this way—besides the fact that GUI scripting is inherently awful—is that that method searches whatever depths Mail feels like searching; it’s not limited to just the subject without the subject token. Avoid the GUI:

set filter to "orientation" --or whatever
set text item delimiters to return

tell application "Mail" to (mailbox ((choose from list (get mailboxes's name))'s item 1)'s messages whose subject contains filter)'s subject as rich text