Re: Misc Eudora questions
Re: Misc Eudora questions
- Subject: Re: Misc Eudora questions
- From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 09:44:40 +0100
At 2:24 am +0100 5/8/02, Alex Robinson wrote:
Well, not to worry, Rob's x-eudora-setting:11110 is good enough for me.
Yes, it's very handy. There are also settings to enable you to reply
to newsgroups via mail2news. Eudora (combined with MacSlurp) is the
fastest and most manageable way to get news and the whole thing is
scriptable. I can have the whole text of five hundred or so news
articles nicely downloaded and filtered in Eudora before most people
have glanced at the headers of a dozen in one of your OE type online
readers.
Which is great. All my questions answered except for this:
1. To get the currently selected message, you can use message 0 or front
message etc. But I can't see how you get the currently selected messages.
(ie so I can move or chnage status of multiple messages)
So, are the claims that you simply can't manipulate multiple messages true
or more scurrilous anti-Eudora smears?
"Whose.." is not implemented in Eudora. I can't think what you would
need to script. Any menu command, such as 'transfer to mailbox x'
can be run with a function key from the toolbar. If I want to change
the label of a group of selected messages, I just click in the label
column and choose from he popup menu. If I want to find all messages
with the same subject, I just option click on the subject and get
them all grouped withput disturbing the general arrangement of the
message list. If I want to manually filter a selection of messages,
I just type command J and, if I ever needed to, I can have that
action create an apple event with a list of the ids of the selected
messages.
Since Eudora uses plain text UNIX mailboxes, it is simple to monitor
just anything that happens. You can record all bytes transferred and
have a background app constantly monitoring and reacting etc.
<with an <x-dothis:> URI, you can send events to any stay-open
applet. Jus command-click on the uri and choose the applet.
People who think Eudora is in any way lacking in features are simply
people who don't know Eudora. I couldn't possibly get any other
mailer to perform these tricks. But I have been using Eudora since
version 1.3 and scripting Eudora since:
ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/eudora/eudorapro/mac/extras/EudoraQA.sea
JD
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