title: Mail Rule to Run Applescript Not Working?
body: <p>Question for my fellow AppleScripters.  I have the following script which runs just fine if you run it in AppleScript Editor or Script Debugger, but that won't run at all if you try to run it from a Mail rule.  The script is correctly placed in ~/Library/Application Scripts/com.apple.mail, and shows up in the "Run AppleScript" menu in the Mail rule, but simply refuses to work when new mail arrives.</p>
  
  <pre><code>on perform_mail_action(info)
    tell application "Mail"
  set theMessages to |SelectedMessages| of info
  repeat with thisMessage in theMessages
  set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
  set thisSender to sender of thisMessage as string
  set quotepos to offset of "\"" in thisSender
    if (quotepos is not 0) then
      set thisSender to (text items (quotepos + 1) through -1) ¬
        of thisSender as string
      set quotepos to offset of "\"" in thisSender
      if (quotepos is not 0) then
        set thisSender to (text items 1 through (quotepos - 1)) ¬
          of thisSender as string
      end if
    else
      set atpos to offset of "@" in thisSender
      if (atpos is not 0) then
        set thisSender to (text items 1 through (atpos - 1)) ¬
          of thisSender as string
      end if
      set brkpos to offset of "&lt;" in thisSender
      if (brkpos is not 0) then
        set thisSender to (text items (brkpos + 1) through -1) ¬
          of thisSender as string
        end if
        end if
        tell application "Finder" to say "Mail from " &amp; thisSender
      end repeat
    end tell
  end perform_mail_action
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any ideas?</p>