Re: Re: Apply Entourage Rules
Re: Re: Apply Entourage Rules
- Subject: Re: Re: Apply Entourage Rules
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 23:35:37 EST
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I haven't quite understood the following:
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Why can't Entourage just run its Rules normally when the mail arrives from
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Emailer? How do you get it over to Entourage?
I'm using one script that snags an AOL-incoming filtered message in
Emailer (or you can manually select an entire group, frontmost incoming
message window, etc.), dissects the email and assigns properties (name,
sender, account, address, content, attachments, status, priority, etc),
then creates a new message in a designated folder in Entourage and
applies all the various properties.
The problem is, since the new mail is being *created* and not *received*,
Entourage is too "stupid" to then apply rules.
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If you simply run a rule in
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Emailer to redirect each AOL item as it comes in to your Entourage POP
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account,
Again, Entourage is not receiving the mail via POP, it's being generated
via AppleScript. Emailer is receiving the mail via POP, and uses
AppleScript to "transfer" the email into Entourage.
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and then have Entourage set to have all its Rules **enabled**, the
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rules will all be run as the redirected item comes in, one by one. Why not
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do that?
Again, I did try first receiving the mail in Emailer from AOL, then
redirecting that same mail back out via an Internet POP account to an
Internet POP account, then using Entourage to retrieve the redirected
email, and in that case, yes, then Entourage's rules and filters kick in
as they are designed, but this is messy, and when we're talking about a
few hundred messages a day, a waste of bandwidth and connection time (3x
bandwidth for every message and attachment on 34.4K modem).
That leaves me with using AOL mail forwarding, which handles incoming
email OK (but can still be very slow and I lose receipt ability), but
doesn't resolve outgoing, so I still have to use Emailer.
I'll look at OneClick again, but I'm limited on RAM and find that such
tools consume precious memory when vanilla AppleScript should work, but
for one missing command.
Thanks again.
Best Regards,
Father of Eight