AppleScript and Email clients
AppleScript and Email clients
- Subject: AppleScript and Email clients
- From: Dave G <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:16:26 -0500
Hello,
I am gearing up for much more AppleScript use with my email client.
And so I am asking about which email clients people use for
AppleScripting and why they prefer them over others.
I now use Eudora 5.1. After listening to a friend in the Windows
world I thought that Eudora was at the top of the heap. It does all
right but I am still not a power user and some features may not be
doing me all that much good. One thing I now realize, is that while
Eudora has a script pull down menu, it has no option for setting a
filter to run a script. And that alone is cause for me to jump ship.
I just went back and looked at Microsoft Outlook Express, my last
email client. It really does have some very nice features in it. And
it does have the option to run an AS with a filter. It lacks some
text formatting tweaks that Eudora has. And it does some things which
are annoying. No custom sound notification, just the standard OE
stock (lame) notification sounds. And a junk mail filter that doesn't
tell me what it's criteria for junk is. Does anyone know if Outlook
Express can be upgraded? I tried a download of the full version of
Outlook, but it will not run without being set up for several users.
Does Outlook Express have a more robust version upgrade to Outlook
for a single user Mac?
And I found a copy of Emailer, but that is getting crusty with age.
Still good I am sure but I am building my solutions for the next
couple of years. I am not ready for system 10 yet. Still using 8.6 on
a G3 upgraded 7300.
I presume that using AS in a filtered script will give me full
control over adding records to a database, striping text and
appending messages to a clients email record in a database file. What
I want is to track all my conversations in one place. And when I get
a reply with a specific header in it, I want it added to a project's
records, also in a database.
And so, which would folks on this list recommend? Eudora? Microsoft
Outlook Express? An upgrade (what would it be?) or another client not
yet mentioned? If AppleScript will make my life easier, what email
client would make AS easier? We all have our individual preferences.
Mine is to set it up and forget it. I don't want to pull down script
menus if I can set it to watch and execute if conditions are met.
Thanks,
Dave Groover
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