[MacRuby-devel] Basic delayed email method

Tue Oct 23 02:28:17 PDT 2012

Just had a closer look at what I did with sending mail and I think my earlier reply was probably  wrong, or at least not helpful.  I think the difficulty arises because there are some things that ScriptingBridge is unable to do.  I could not find a way to create an outgoing message with ScriptingBridge and I had to resort to running a trivial applescript (using NSAppleScript executeAndReturnError)  to do the job for me.  If anyone knows a better way I'd be delighted to hear about it! 

I created the applescript from a template that I modified in my code before I executed it.  I guess Cliff could adopt a similar approach to copy subject, content etc from his draft.

Here's the template.  The %HTML% and %SUBJECT% are placeholders that get replaced by the actual values before execution.

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tell application "Mail"
	activate
	set htmlMsg to "%HTML%"
	set subjecta to "%SUBJECT%"
	set theMsg to make new outgoing message with properties ¬
		{subject:subjecta, html content:htmlMsg & return & return, content:""}
end tell
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Steve

On 23 Oct 2012, at 07:06, Cliff Rosson <cliff.rosson at gmail.com> wrote:

> So playing around a little with this I was able to browse and find messages via macruby. On the other hand I cannot figure out how to send a drafted email. Here is what I have so far.
> 
> My drafts folder has 1 message in it ready to be sent.
> 
> mail = SBApplication.applicationWithBundleIdentifier("com.apple.mail")
> my_account = mail.accounts.select { |account| account.name == "MyAccountName" }.first
> drafts_folder = my_account.mailboxes.select { |mailbox| mailbox.name == "Drafts" }.first
> draft = drafts_folder.messages.first
> 
> I need to use the send method somehow. I think I need to make a new MailOutgoingMessage but I would like to make this message based on my already existing draft message.
> 
> Any know how this is done?
> 
> I had hoped it would have been as simple as draft.send. :)
> 
> 
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Mark Rada <mrada at marketcircle.com> wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> 
> I think Colin answered this fairly well. Personally, I prefer to use GCD when available because I find the API simpler and GCD stuff works with or without run loops.
> 
> --
>         Mark
> 
> 
> On 2012-10-20, at 2:40 PM, Robert Carl Rice <rice.audio at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > I use NSTimer a lot in my apps. What is the advantage of using GCD API?
> >
> > There is an excellent tutorial on the web for specifically for setting up ScriptingBridge for Apple Mail but I forget where I saw it. On warning; if you set up ScriptingBridge for Apple Mail don't try to take a snapshot in Xcode 4. Xcode will follow the link to mail and include all of your mailboxes in the snapshot. I don't know if there is a way to stop this behavior.
> >
> > Bob Rice
> >
> > On Oct 19, 2012, at 6:50 PM, Mark Rada <mrada at marketcircle.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Busy looping for an hour would be really bad. I assume you would have a sleep in there, but then you're still polling.
> >>
> >> If you are using MacRuby, looking at the GCD API would be a good idea. You could do something like this:
> >>
> >> def schedule_email q
> >>   q.after(3600) do
> >>       # Send email
> >>       schedule_email q
> >>   end
> >> end
> >>
> >> schedule_email Dispatch::Queue.new("com.rosson.delayed.email")
> >>
> >> NSRunLoop.currentRunLoop.run
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> As for actually sending emails, if you want to have things go through Apple Mail you could use the ScriptingBridge framework which has a few tutorials online (but for iTunes):
> >>
> >> http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/09/tutorial-os-x-automation-with-macruby-and-the-scripting-bridge/
> >>
> >> AXElements is another option that I am biased in favour of; but it may not be passive enough for your requirements.
> >>
> >> HTH,
> >>      Mark
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2012-10-19, at 6:12 PM, Cliff Rosson <cliff.rosson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Everyone,
> >>>
> >>> I am fairly new to macruby and am having trouble finding some basic documentation to help me out. I would like to write a simple app that sends a delayed email based on Time from mac mail.
> >>>
> >>> I am thinking of something like this,
> >>>
> >>> time = Time.now + 3600
> >>> while true
> >>> case time
> >>> when Time.now
> >>>   #Send email
> >>> end
> >>> end
> >>>
> >>> Being able to respond to certain emails or send an email from a draft would be a huge benefit. Can anyone point me in the write direction to accomplish this? I am decently proficient in ruby but don't know where to start with MacRuby.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks everyone
> >>>
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