Re: Address Book in Eudora
Re: Address Book in Eudora
- Subject: Re: Address Book in Eudora
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 00:25:24 -0400
On Tuesday, Aug 20, 2002, at 22:51 US/Eastern, Doug McNutt wrote:
At 22:03 -0400 8/20/02, John C. Welch wrote:
exactly what does a personality have to do with a mail account.
A personality IS a mail account. If you have only one to monitor you
should ignore the concept.
I understand what a personality is, and why one has multiple mail
accounts, I have 7 that I deal with constantly. The term "personality"
is where I have the problem. It is totally unrelated to anything beyond
an attempt to be cutesy, but you have to deal with it while scripting,
unless there is a scripting option to 'turn off extraneous patronizing
terms'.
Many of us have separate accounts for, say, lists and regular mail. We
may also want to have an account we never read for SPAM suppression.
In my case I have a need to monitor my boss' mail because he often
misses important stuff. Mail addressed to my domain which has a bad
username comes to yet another "admin" account. Personalities are the
answer and they are a complete solution.
No, accounts are the solution. Personalities are a near-idiotic term
created because there is an assumption that people who are ignorant of
computers somehow cannot learn with the correct terms. That's silly,
and ends up hurting Eudora users who try other applications.
Eudora is missing two AppleScript options:
1) Eudora filters should have an option to pass tests to other APPLs
via AppleEvents. That doesn't mean only AppleScript but could include
perl or grep for regular expressions.
2) Eudora's dictionary needs to provide for access the current
selection of messages in a mailbox window so they can be acted upon by
a script either sequentially or en masse.
There's a minor one.
Other than those I find Eudora's interface to AppleEvents appropriate.
It was quite easy to prepare a script that added the To: field of an
outgoing message to a address book group which is immediately accessed
by a filter which in turn passes a response from that address through
my SPAM filters.
Note the reply to selector by John Delacour on 8/2/02. It is simple.
It works on a lot of lists, and it is the result of Eudora's scripting
offering.
That's nice, but when you are dealing with a dictionary, you need the
application to provide you with clear concise terms that quickly
describe a function. Personalities are not that at all, and folders are
some quasi - Finder/Eudora 'thing' that should have an entirely
different name.
so from what I understand:
Eudoraspeak Every other mail app
Personality Account
Mailbox Folders within an account
Folder Arbitrary disk structure for holding mail on the hard disk that
is accessible by
the mail program, but has nothing to do with the account folders,
especially in
an IMAP account.
<sarcasm>
How silly of me not to have been able to instantly apply the knowledge
of 20+ other email programs instantly to this simple, transparent
structure. Why, I'm surprised that *everyone* isn't scripting Eudora.
</sarcasm>
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