Re: Emailer script to file replies with replied-to messages
Re: Emailer script to file replies with replied-to messages
- Subject: Re: Emailer script to file replies with replied-to messages
- From: Allen Watson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 16:37:14 -0800
Paul, thanks for copying me on this message. I don't think I ever did get
involved with reply id in Emailer days. Michelle says she's moving to
Portland some time soon; I'm looking forward to meeting her at last. She
gave us Emailer users a <lot> of assistance and good info when she was
working at Claris during the last days of Emailer.
You are right. I'm not reading AS-users list these days. I think I'm still a
member, just on "NO MAIL" status (I'll know I'm wrong if this bounces from
the list.) Maybe I'll resume in a few months...
On or near 3/11/01 10:52 AM, Paul Berkowitz at email@hidden observed:
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Interesting, Michelle. I see you make use of a message property in Emailer
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called 'reply id'. When I wrote a script to do the same 'file reply in same
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folder' thing for Outlook Express, which does not have any such property, I
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had to invent a complicated contraption storing records of the message and
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folder IDs in a script property list, having a schedule run another script
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to check for sent messages, loading the script with the stored records, etc.
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It got very unwieldy when you had a lot of folders (which I don't myself).
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Allen Watson, who used my script with his 80 or 90 folders, kept running
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into annoyances with it.
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In Entourage, whose scripting is based on OE's but with more features
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including accessing Entourage's new UI feature 'links' (to all sorts of
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other application objects), Allen realized that he could take advantage of
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the fact that Entourage automatically links a reply to the message it
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replied to, and that you can get this link via AppleScript. In effect, it is
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the same 'reply id' property you have in Emailer. When Allen announced his
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much neater solution, I remember Dan Crevier, the Entourage developer who
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implements AppleScript and much else - including perhaps the whole 'links'
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mechanism - enthusiastically congratulating Allen on having come up with
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this solution. Dan never let on that, in effect, he had in the process of
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enabling links and the scripting for them, restored this 'reply id' property
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which he had first implemented in Emailer, where, as of course you know, he
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had also done the AppleScripting before moving to OE.
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Allen may not currently be reading AS-Users, so, unusually, I've quoted your
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whole message and script below in cc'ing him. I know that he too was an avid
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Emailer before moving over to OE and now Entourage, but I don't know whether
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he ever used 'reply id' when he was still using Emailer.
--
Peace be with you!
Allen <email@hidden> XNS Name: =Allen Watson
My web page: <
http://home.earthlink.net/~allenwatson/>
Scripts for OE and Entourage: <
http://homepage.mac.com/allenwatson/>