Re: OS 10.2 & Mail scripting has introduced a new wrinkle
Re: OS 10.2 & Mail scripting has introduced a new wrinkle
- Subject: Re: OS 10.2 & Mail scripting has introduced a new wrinkle
- From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 14:49:37 -0700
On Friday, August 16, 2002, at 01:46 PM, cricket wrote:
On Thursday, August 15, 2002, at 07:43 PM, email@hidden wrote:
If you try to have your applescript (studio or straight script
editor) create a mail & automatically send it, Mail will pop a
new dialog box which basically says you cannot do this without
hitting "OK" the first time--then it will allow you to send
the mails without user intervention--until you quit Mail and
start it up again!
It's a nice security feature, but I wish Apple would allow you
to at least turn it off by preference--some scripts are made
to mail results without a user sitting there.
It is intended to happen once per use of Mail, so if you always
keep Mail running, you won't get bothered with dialogs.
There are problems with it being a preference, though, as it
could conceivably be circumvented via a script.
Personally, I'd like to see it perhaps be done on a per-script
basis, such that after you've approved one particular script,
it has the rights to continue to execute.
Any suggestions would be welcome. We're very concerned about
potential security issues and have perhaps erred on the of
caution in this case.
At the AppleScript level, a preference with a password. Seems to
me there would be a choice of technologies to implement it with
too. Also, since the concern extends to other applications, why
not a per application password mechanism for AppleScript?
tell application "Mail"
using password "secret"
beep -- ;-)
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Where are the biggest ley lines in the world?
Philip Aker
http://www.aker.ca
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