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Ben Kei

macrumors regular
Original poster
Oct 30, 2002
204
1
London UK
Hello,

In the past we had used Quickmail in our offices which had an option to export a log of all sent/received mail.

Does anyone know if it's possible to do the same in OS X mail server? (using 10.4.11)

We've run a competition on our site and need to be able to get all the entries into list form otherwise some poor soul will be sitting down and extracting about 4000 mail addresses.

Many thanks,
Ben
 

Ben Kei

macrumors regular
Original poster
Oct 30, 2002
204
1
London UK
For anyone who is interested.

While we haven't yet found a way to do this on the server, someone has written us an applescript that will log all incoming mail addresses on the client side.

You'll need to paste the script into the applescript editor and save as a scpt file.

Create a rule in Mail:

If - [all] of the following conditions are met:
[every message]
Perform the following actions:
[run apple script]

Then select the script.

This will create a log file in your console.app and write the address and title of all incoming e-mails.

I hope this is useful to someone and thanks to user StefanK on the Macscripter website who wrote the script for us.

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property logName : "IncomingMailAddresses.log"

using terms from application "Mail"
on perform mail action with messages theMessages for rule theRule
repeat with oneMessage in theMessages
tell oneMessage to set {theAddress, theSubject} to {sender, subject}
write_log of me from theSubject & " - " & theAddress
end repeat
end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from

on write_log from theMessage
tell (current date) to set timestamp to short date string & space & time string & ": "
set logFile to ((path to library folder from user domain as text) & "Logs:") & logName
try
set the logStream to open for access file logFile with write permission
set logFileEof to get eof of the logStream
write timestamp & theMessage & return to logStream starting at eof as «class utf8»
close access logStream
return true
on error
try
close access file logFile
end try
return false
end try
end write_log
 
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