Apple Mail automation via JXA (osascript -l JavaScript).
Archiving
Mail.app delete() moves messages to Trash, not Archive. There is no archiveMailbox property — find the archive mailbox by name per account.
See archiving.md for account detection, mailbox lookup, and batch archive patterns.
Reading
javascript
var app = Application("Mail");
var inbox = app.inbox();
var messages = inbox.messages();
Key properties: subject(), sender(), dateReceived(), content(), mailbox().account().
Notes
- •JXA arrays from Mail may lack
.map()/.filter()— useArray.from()or for-loops - •
.whose()selectors fail on child mailbox arrays — use for-loops - •Launch Mail first if not running:
open -g -a "Mail"