Re: Entourage > FileMaker
Re: Entourage > FileMaker
- Subject: Re: Entourage > FileMaker
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 13:16:02 -0800
On 12/19/00 1:04 PM, "JollyRoger" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Applescript is correctly informing you that message_Subject has not been
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defined in the write_record() handler, which indeed is the case. You need
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to make message_Subject a property, or declare it global in both handlers -
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otherwise, the scope of the message_Subject variable you set is limited to
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the run handler.
Actually, you just need to declare a global once, at the top of the script
(like properties), if you don't mind it being global to the whole script.
You only need the multiple declarations if you are restricting it to
particular handlers.
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Another partially-related note: I tried coming up with a solution like this
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for Outlook Express. After all was said and done, I found that simply
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dragging messages to a folder in the Finder is a far better method of
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backing up email messages. The attachments are automatically saved in each
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message. A utility like BBEdit can be used to search for certain messages.
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And Outlook Express is far more stable using this method rather than
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Applescript for backing up large numbers of messages.
And in Entourage, which Jacco is using, you can drag entire folders to the
desktop or hard disk and get an mbox text file with (almost) everything
already in it. There's a little bug that messes up the top From line but is
easily fixed since it's correct in a header a little lower down, and there's
already a script of Allen Watson's which does this, or you can write your
own.
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Paul Berkowitz