Counting Messages

[Chris Pink]

I am writing a script with the simple aim of testing the connection to the mailbox and counting how many messages are in there.

 

I am using EmailReadMessages and then EmailReadMessageValue("count")

 

This works fine if there is one or more messages in the mailbox are unread but it doesn't work if all the messages are all read (ie it returns 0)

 

I realise I can iterate the function EmailReadMessages with the flag "viewed = false" then,  if 0 , followed by "viewed =  true" but this seems a little clumsy.

 

is there another way of simply counting, messages, read and unread within a mailbox?