Re: Address Book in Eudora
Re: Address Book in Eudora
- Subject: Re: Address Book in Eudora
- From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:56:25 +0100
At 8:51 pm -0600 20/8/02, Doug McNutt wrote:
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.
Both of these have actually been possible from version 2.1 up to
5.1.1. Unfortunately this feature recently got broken in the alphas
and then fixed...
At 6:04 pm -0500 8/8/02, Steve Dorner wrote:
The bug, by the way, was a copy/paste error during the early
carbonization of the app.
and is now broken again for some reason. I'm getting it dealt with,
but there should be no problem in 5.1.1. I haven't time to go into
detail at the moment, but the secret is to have a stay-open applet
named EudoraHelper running in the background to handle all sorts of
special things.
In brief, suppose you have a number of messages selected in a summary
window and you want to act on them with a script, then you set up
Eudora to notify EudoraHelper when you type cmd-j. EudoraHelper is
then sent a list of the unique message ids and with this list it can
do whatever you want with the messages.
EudoraHelper can also be set up to respond to any "open location"
event such as <dothis:?action=quickly> and this opens a road to all
sorts of added possibilities.
I'm set up at the moment to work with the alphas and haven't time to
chop and change between versions, but when this temporary problem is
solved, I'll make available a little EudoraHelper to demonstrate this
little understood and long-established feature of the incomparable
Eudora.
I think it's worth mentioning that Eudora was scriptable before
anyone had even heard of AppleScript and before Microsoft had
produced a single TCP application let alone a half-usable operating
system.
JD
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