Re: Eudora in the stone age? (was IF Syntax)
Re: Eudora in the stone age? (was IF Syntax)
- Subject: Re: Eudora in the stone age? (was IF Syntax)
- From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 02:06:22 +0100
- Mac-eudora-version: 6.0a14
At 7:55 am -0500 5/4/03, Dave Groover wrote:
Good news then. But, just to be sure we are talking about the same
thing... Eudora certainly can filter a message with AppleScript. It
has a separate scripts menu just for doing that.
mmmm
I was referring to it's ability to have it run an AppleScript of
your choosing as a filter option. In my version 5.1 there is no such
wording. Not broken, just isn't there.
Look at 'start notifying', 'stop notifying' and 'notice' in the dictionary.
Read my last message carefully. Eudora has been able to filter
incoming messages using Apple Events since before Applescript
existed. The principle is practically identical to that used by
other mailers except that a stay-open applet is used to distribute
the data from the events.
Eudora begins to connect
Eudora sends continuous 'will connect' events to the notified applet
until the connexion is closed
Eudora closes the connexion
Eudora sends the 'has connected' event to the applet
If mail has arrived..
Eudora sends the 'mail arrives' event with a list of message references
This list is processed either directly in the applet (as in the
little demo referred to below) or in a slave script.
Here is a snippet I received from Anton on the Qualcomm Eudora tech
support team when I asked this question on Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002
15:52:55 -0700
Unfortunately you haven't missed anything. This is not something that
Eudora supports. I cannot say for sure that it will "Never" be implemented,
however I can say that this is not something that is in the "Pipeline" for
a release anytime in the near future.
What do you expect from some kid at tech support! He was in diapers
when this stuff was introduced.
If you are saying that this is finally true then Oh happy day for
me. I will upgrade. I was not going to upgrade until (or if) they
fixed that.
It's been possible, as I say for the umpteen+1th time, since Eudora
2.1. It is only in 5.2 that it got broken.
Download <
http://www.bd8.com/eudora/eunotice.bin> for the moment and
see for yourself, but I have a neater suite of things in progress
that will really surprise you.
JD
As soon as Applescript existed it was possible to notify an
Applescript applet to filter mail.
During the carbonization of Eudora, this feature got broken and
remained broken through version 5.2 and a good part of the latest
beta cycle until I raised the alarm.
Eudora 5.2.1, just released, restores this function and I recommend it to you
<http://www.eudora.com/email/features/index.html>
There are exciting and not totally unrelated features to look
forward to in the next version.
I documented Eudora notification over two years ago, but I will not
publish the address here since the scripts need modification in the
light of changes in MacOS Finder behaviour.
Now that the current release is repaired and generally available I
will produce new documentation for 'notice' and 'start notifying'.
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