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Re: Netscape email scripting
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Re: Netscape email scripting


  • Subject: Re: Netscape email scripting
  • From: Rob Jorgensen <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:57:47 -0400

At 9:18 AM +0100 8/18/03, John Delacour wrote:
At 10:45 am +1000 18/8/03, Kelvin Aitken wrote:
I am running Netscape 7.02 which is apparently scriptable because it has an applescript dictionary. What I am trying to do is get the text of the email which is displayed in the front window and place it either in a variable or onto the clipboard for a bit of text massaging before saving it elsewhere as a plain text document.

Can someone please let me know the correct syntax to get the information out of Netscape.

Is there anything in the dictionary that suggests to you this might be possible? In brief encounters with Netscape in the past I seem to recall nothing to do with mail was scriptable, but it's just possible things have changed.

This might be a good time to point out one of MacScripter.net's recently added sections.

<http://macscripter.net/app_dictionaries/>

I sometimes attempt to help scripters who are working with apps that I have no access to. These dictionaries sometimes allow me to make semi-intelligent guesses without obtaining the software. It's also handy for scripters who sometimes troubleshoot from non-Mac machines/environments.

With a little planning, creativity and luck, one could write a script on a non-Mac box and then send it to their remote Mac. The Mac could pick it up via a email filter script or folder action and send it to a scriptable script editor or the shell for an attempt to compile. If the script compiled, it could then (1) execute locally if the compile was successful and/or (2) send a response/result back to the non-Mac machine and/or (3) insert your stuff here. Disclaimer: I haven't tried any of this.

This reminds me of my distributed compiling idea but I'll save that for another day. ;-)

-- Rob
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