Search Mail.app Workflow

[jdfwarrior]

The Workflow sure works great for me, but I'm trying to understand your approach (and create other workflows on the same idea for other e-mail clients).

Why use a script at all? Can the same thing be done with a filter?

You can limit the scope to ~/Library/Mail/V2 and use the kMDItemAuthorEmailAddresses, kMDItemAuthors and kMDItemSubject metadata fields.

What's wrong with that approach?

 

I'm unsure how it all works, because I've ran into a few things I couldn't figure out when I tried (eg: using kMDItemContentType didn't seem to make any difference at all, that's why I eventually had to resort to limiting the scope).

 

 

          Corentin

 

 

Correct, the same thing could be done with a filter but you cant format the way it is shown. I made an extension for Alfred v1 that did this very same thing with a filter. It would show the subject of the email as the title but would only show the file path as the subtext. By using a script filter I can make it show other useful information. I can make the subtext show who the email is from and other data as well.

[jdfwarrior]

Would it be possible to write this to work for something like PostBox?

 

Sorry man I must have missed this question in the past. It may be possible. It would depend on how messages are stored with Postbox.  It seems like I checked into this before and it wasn't easily possible. I'll take a look again though.

[cortig]

Correct, the same thing could be done with a filter but you cant format the way it is shown. I made an extension for Alfred v1 that did this very same thing with a filter. It would show the subject of the email as the title but would only show the file path as the subtext. By using a script filter I can make it show other useful information. I can make the subtext show who the email is from and other data as well.

 

 

I see. Thanks a million for the clarification. It makes a lot of sense!

 

 

          Corentin

 

[cortig]

I found a new issue…

I performed a search on my own name and noticed that there is a problem with accent encoding in the results.

The From field displayed “Corentin Cras-Me\U0301neur” for my name. It failed to parse e\U0301 as é.

 

 

          Corentin

 

[alon85]

Case-insensitive results are not working for me - I tried fudging with the 'c aspect of the query but to no avail.  Can others relate if case-sensitive searches are working for them?

 

Thanks!

[Adam]

Works great here now, thanks David!

[greghoch]

This is a great workflow! Thanks!

 

Would it be possible to a) show all unread emails right after entering a keyword and reply to email meaning that I select an email and Mail.app open a window where I can write my reply to an email. Together, these two features would be pretty awesome!

[jdfwarrior]

This is a great workflow! Thanks!

 

Would it be possible to a) show all unread emails right after entering a keyword and reply to email meaning that I select an email and Mail.app open a window where I can write my reply to an email. Together, these two features would be pretty awesome!

 

I need to go back and look at this workflow and see if I can add some additional functionality. This is one of the first workflows I created and could probably be tweaked a good bit from what it originally was.

[sr_navarre]

Any way to get this to ignore deleted messages?

[martijn]

Hi, this is a brilliant workflow! Could you make it work with Postbox as well? (I really don't know how to program this myself).

thanks!

 

cheers,

Martijn

[stonefury]

I might be missing something, but is there a way to search multiple keyboards?  I want to search for say "jon" "ubuntu" to find emails with both these words in the email.

 

Thanks