This was a script I wrote to send delayed emails from macmail. The script is run in a cron every 15 minutes The script checks for items in the Mail draft folder that have a [SEND@XYZ] tag. For example, [SEND@16:00] The script checks if a drafted emails SEND@ tag matches or is near the current time. If so a new email is drafted, See step 4. The n…

delay_mail.rb

#!/usr/local/bin/macruby
framework 'ScriptingBridge'
 
ACCOUNT = "AccountName"
DAY = Time.now.day
MONTH = Time.now.month
YEAR = Time.now.year
 
CURRENT_TIME = ((Time.now - 150)..(Time.now + 300))
 
def draft_tag(draft)
	draft.subject.match(/\[SEND@\d+:\d+\]/)[0]
end
 
def send_now?(draft)
	tag = draft_tag(draft)
  hour, minute = tag.scan(/\d+/)
	time = Time.local(YEAR, MONTH, DAY, hour, minute)
	
	CURRENT_TIME.cover?(time) && draft.recipients.length > 0
end
 
def build_new_draft(draft, mail = @mail)
	props = {}
  props['subject'] = draft.subject.gsub(draft_tag(draft), '')
  props['sender'] = draft.sender
  props['content'] = draft.content.get
	
	outgoing_msg = mail.classForScriptingClass('outgoing message').alloc.initWithProperties(props)
	mail.outgoingMessages.addObject(outgoing_msg)
  recievers = ""
  draft.recipients.each do |recip|
    recievers << "%s," % recip.address
  end
 
  recipient =  mail.classForScriptingClass('to recipient').alloc.initWithProperties({'address'=>recievers})
  outgoing_msg.toRecipients.addObject(recipient)
	outgoing_msg
end
 
@mail = SBApplication.applicationWithBundleIdentifier("com.apple.mail")
 
if @mail.isRunning
  my_account = @mail.accounts.select { |account| account.name == ACCOUNT }.first
  drafts_folder = my_account.mailboxes.select { |mailbox| mailbox.name == "Drafts" }.first
  delayed_messages = drafts_folder.messages.select { |x| x.subject.match(/\[SEND@\d\d:\d\d\]/) }
 
  delayed_messages.each do |draft|
    if send_now?(draft)  
      
			outgoing_msg = build_new_draft(draft)
			
      if outgoing_msg.send
        draft.delete
      end
			
    end
  end
end

For some reason I cannot set the indentation to 2.

For your gist or your editor? It almost looks like your editor is using tabs, though I can't fully confirm this at the moment. I will clone this down to get a closer look. How about scheduling a community event to look at this together? Not necessarily with me but a few people in the community might like to do so.

Yea it was my editor. I would love to do a community event.

Hmm. Even pasting it from textmate the tabs look odd.

https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/be482ce407d2dafb65672b5485b5b69632eaac9d?authuser=0&hl=en is a link where you can get together (it is persistent).