Re: Scripting POP Account Query

[Paul Berkowitz]

Title: Re: Scripting POP Account Query

On 12/19/00 1:12 AM, "Barry Wainwright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> So why can’t I say (pop account whose name contains “Barry”) or anything like
> that?


You always have to say

     every POP account whose name contains "Barry"

or ‘first’ or ‘last’ if you’re willing to risk an error if there is none]. That works. Try that in the Finder, or any app: it’s the same. It’s in the ASLG under Filter Reference..

But there’s a strange bug for ‘email address’ of account

    every POP account whose email address is “[EMAIL PROTECTED]”

will give you {}. But

    every POP account where its email address is “[EMAIL PROTECTED]”

will give you the correct answer

    -- {POP account id 1}

or whatever.

It should be exactly the same, but it isn’t. Don’t ask me why – very weird, isn’t it? Dan showed me this solution once, but I don’t think he gave a reason for it either. I believe it’s a confusion with the ‘email address’ property of contact or something like that. Probably the use of ‘it’ is what helps, since I just discovered this also works correctly:

    every POP account whose email address of it is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
    -- {POP account id 1}

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Paul Berkowitz