Prevent Email From Being Sent via Applescript

Question

I've got the following AppleScript (below). I'm attempting to confirm the sending of an email. This AppleScript is already successfully hooked up to an "outbox rule" (using Mail Act-On) in Mail.app, and I've verified that it runs when it is supposed to (at the time of sending).

The ultimate goal is to pop a dialog to the user, asking if they "really" want to send the email. If not, stop the email from being sent.

The current script attempts to delete the message, but that doesn't work. Any ideas?

using terms from application "Mail"
    on perform mail action with messages messageList for rule theRule

        repeat with thisMessage in messageList

            set theResult to display dialog "Send?" buttons {"OK", "Cancel"} default button 2
            if button returned of theResult is not equal to "OK" then
                delete thisMessage
            end if

        end repeat
    end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from

Answer 1

I think that a "Cancel" button in a display dialog will immediately end execution of your script which means that the delete thisMessage line never is run.

You might try changing that to something like:

set theResult to display dialog "Send?" buttons {"OK", "No, Delete Message"} default button 2
if button returned of theResult is not equal to "OK" then
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