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: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 22:57:20 -0400
On 08/17/2002 21:23, "Timothy Bates" <email@hidden> wrote:
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"John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
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> At this point, *Microsoft* is better about AppleScript on it's Mac products
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> than Apple is...which is a point I should have added to my workingmac.com
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> article.
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All of this thread just baffles me. Scriptable power is dangerous and bad,
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but Microsoft is better than Apple for having more of it (as long as you
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don't count two out of the three big apps in Office (Word, where AppleScript
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crashes the app, and PowerPoint which has no scripting)).
Scriptable power is no more dangerous than anything else on a computer. It's
not inherently dangerous or bad.
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What is the point of this thread? Oh yeah, if a user has turned on sendmail,
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mail.app can now use it (as can any other scriptable app). And if you then
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get an AppleScript that you don't look at before running, it can abuse it?
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(as can any script running in any app - say Entourage, or omnigraffle - a
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much more likely Trojan).
No, the point of this thread is that Mail requiring a dialog do be dismissed
is not security, it's a PITA. There's a difference. If you think of that as
security, then why not require it for any script on the system? Oh wait,
because then you'd have idiotic dialogs every three seconds.
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For my money, that is the power we like on the Mac, or at least it is the
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power I like. I like being able to run sendmail, I like being able to
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automate actions. Apple ships X locked up like fort Knox - the user then
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turns on power until the heat gets too hot. Suggestions that there be a
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"safety" control panel where the user (or their net-nanny admin) can set all
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these risks on and off are unworkable - who knows what the risks are? Or
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will be tomorrow. Leave things the way Apple deliver them (safe, and speedy)
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or, like Dennis Leary said: get a helmet.
Because the way Apple is delivering this in Mail is annoying.
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Sounds to me like mail.app and addressbook are moving rapidly in the right
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direction to become real competitors to their competition. (I like
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competition too).
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Well, maybe if I could get information *into* Address Book without having to
convert it to LDIF via Mozilla, and *maybe* if I could easily Export
information FROM Address Book it would be on the right track. But at the
moment, it's kludgy to get information into, and impossible to get
information out of. I said it when X was first released, and I'll say it
again...without solid import/export functionality, preferably scriptable,
Address Book is like a necklace on a mouse...pretty, but pretty useless too.
john
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"There may be no stupid questions, but there are an awful lot of
inquisitive idiots"
-Bill, digital.forest tech support
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