Re: Scripting Mail:get selection
Re: Scripting Mail:get selection
- Subject: Re: Scripting Mail:get selection
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:19:35 -0500
On 02/24/2003 16:49, "cricket" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
Entourage has a more developed dictionary, but is missing some
>
important stuff like scriptable rules, signatures, and the ability to
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fully script IMAP.
Um...I can hit scripts on incoming OR outgoing rules in E'rage, (mail
can't).
I can script the default sig for *each* account in E'rage separately, along
with how sigs are displayed, Mail applies the same sig and type to every
account.
Mail has better support for the sig as a message property, but since it has
a pitiful scheduler compared to E'rage's, and VERY limited script support
from within rules, it's a tossup. I know that getting my sigFromiTunes
script ported to Mail is taking quite long, and can only run as a stay open
script because of the limitations of Mail's scheduler.
Mail does let me script rule creation, which is nice, but being able to
differentiate between POP and IMAP accounts would be better.
I can *easily* change the content of a given sig in E'rage, as well as Mail,
although E'rage gives me two ways to refer to a sig (Name and ID), as
opposed to name only in Mail. E'rage also has an 'include in random'
property for sigs, Mail does not. This is important to one of my projects.
Mail has better authentication support, but E'rage has better IMAP account
parameter scripting overall. Mail can handle *some* IMAP operations better,
which would be nice in E'rage, but that's more of a rules issue for me at
least.
I know that it is a LOT faster to get stuff done in E'rage, but then, most
Cocoa dictionaries are a tad odd.
Oh, and the system events stuff only works if you have the beta system
events on your system. Selection support is as critical to scripting mail
applications as a good AppleScript debugger is when developing them.
john
--
"95% of everyone you meet will be a moron. This is usually proven by looking
in the mirror each morning."
John C. Welch
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