Re: Scripting Mail.app
Re: Scripting Mail.app
- Subject: Re: Scripting Mail.app
- From: Paul Skinner <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:40:39 -0500
I also noted Cricket's 'Jimminy' * user picture and asked directly.
Without quoting the private reply publicly; the answer I recieved was...
It's magic. :)
Appropriately diplomatic.
*Disclaimer: (The cricket is definately NOT Jimminy cricket and no
copyright infringement is suggested. It loosely resembles him as it is a
standing cricket and I use the term for illustrative description
ONLY. ;^)
It appears that messages in Apple's Message Framework versions
greater than 2.501 carry user pictures within their headers. Or at least
that's my analysis of this mysterious phenomenon. You can find the
version number of the email client in the raw source of the message...
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v502)\n
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.502)\n
Version 1.1 of the Mail.app (current released version) is...
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v480)\n
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.480)\n
which shows '1.1 (v471/480)' in the 'About Mail' window.
On Sunday, January 13, 2002, at 11:03 PM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
On 1/13/02 1:31 PM, "Reinhold Penner" <email@hidden> wrote:
P.P.S.: How on earth did you get the cricket graphic into your message?
Is this a new feature of Mail.app? If there's another trick to do this,
please let me know.
What cricket graphic? Cricket's email arrived here (Entourage X) as
plain
text - no graphics. The source of his message does not indicate it was
sent
multi-part alternative - it was sent only text/plain, with
format=flowed.
Surely format=flowed has nothing to do with graphics. Is Mail's RTF just
changed into plain text for email readers without RTF, and preserved as
styled text for email readers that do RTF? Doesn't the list server
change
messages to plain text for all messages? Is some formatting being
passed on
by the list server to readers (Mail and Eudora, I guess, maybe anyone
here
with Outlook Windows) that read RTF? That sounds pretty strange to me.
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Paul Berkowitz
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Paul Skinner