– hubionmac.com 2010-01

– script to be added to a Apple Mail rule

–saves attachmens of new mails into a folder

on perform_mail_action(info)

tell application “Mail”

tell application “Finder” to set mypath to (folder “Mail Attachments Saved” of desktop) as text

set theMessages to |SelectedMessages| of info

repeat with thisMessage in theMessages

try

repeat with a in (every mail attachment of thisMessage)

set current_a_name to name of a

set current_a_name to my checkname_with_pdf_suffix(current_a_name, mypath as alias, false)

save a in mypath & current_a_name

end repeat

on error msg

do shell script “echo ” & quoted form of msg & ” | cat>>~/Desktop/MailscriptErrorLog.txt”

end try

end repeat

end tell

end perform_mail_action

on checkname_with_pdf_suffix(n, D, looped)

tell application “Finder”

set thefiles to name of every item of (D as alias)

end tell

if thefiles contains n then

if looped = false then

set n to ((characters 1 through -5 of n) & ” 1″ & (characters -4 through -1 of n)) as text

my checkname_with_pdf_suffix(n, D, true)

else

set tmp to (last word of ((characters 1 through -5 of n) as text) as integer)

set tmpcount to (count of characters of (tmp as text)) + 5

set tmp to tmp + 1

set n to ((characters 1 through (-1 * tmpcount) of n) & tmp & (characters -4 through -1 of n)) as text

my checkname_with_pdf_suffix(n, D, true)

end if

else

return n

end if

end checkname_with_pdf_suffix