让AppleScript发送电子邮件，然后通过Shell脚本重新启动计算机？

Question

I'm working on converting my MBP into a media center, and one of the apps I have set up on it will run a script if the computer gets too hot. If this happened, it would trigger an AppleScript that would send me an email (telling me what happened) and then restart the computer.

The problem however is that the restart won't wait until Mail has sent the message. How can I remedy this?

tell application "Mail"
   set theNewMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {subject:"Media Center Alert", content:"Media Center has encountered a problem. It is now restarting. ", visible:false}
   tell theNewMessage
       make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties {address:"myemail"}
       send
   end tell
end tell
tell application "Finder"
   do shell script "reboot now" password "mypass" with administrator privileges
end tell

Also, the reason why I am using a shell script to restart the computer is because I couldn't find a way to dismiss the "Do you want to save..." dialogs while using just restart.

Answer 1

dive's answer didn't work for me as there is no way to match an outgoing messages "id" with a mailbox messages "id" or "message id", are there is no "date sent" property in an outgoing mesage. However doing a count of the number of messages in the sent mailbox works:

tell application "Mail"

    set numOutgoingMessages to 1
    set secondsToWait to 10

    set preSentCount to count messages in sent mailbox
    set secondsPassed to 0

    repeat while secondsPassed is less than secondsToWait

        set curSentCount to count messages in sent mailbox

        if curSentCount is greater than or equal to preSentCount + numOutgoingMessages then
            set secondsPassed to secondsToWait + 1
        end if

        if secondsPassed is less than secondsToWait then
            delay 1
        end if

        set secondsPassed to secondsPassed + 1

    end repeat

end tell

and surely this should not be in the linux section?

Answer 2

check in loop properties 'id' of your message in sent mailbox and reboot if it there or reboot if mail can't sent for 15 minutes:

tell application "Mail"
    set my_id to id of theNewMessage

    set startDate to current date
    set rebootDate to (current date) + 15 * minutes
    rebootDate + 15 * minutes

    -- wait 15 minutes for Mail.app, then reboot if message cannot be sent
    repeat while startDate is not equal to rebootDate
        set last_msg to first message of sent mailbox
        set last_msg_id to id of last_msg

        if last_msg_id is equal to my_id then
            -- reboot
        end if
        delay 15
    end repeat
end tell

note: I haven't tested this code much, please test it by yourself if you like.