Re: Scripting Mail:get selection
Re: Scripting Mail:get selection
- Subject: Re: Scripting Mail:get selection
- From: cricket <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:53:34 -0800
On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 14:19PM, John C. Welch wrote:
Entourage has a more developed dictionary, but is missing some
important stuff like scriptable rules, signatures, and the ability to
fully script IMAP.
Um...I can hit scripts on incoming OR outgoing rules in E'rage, (mail
can't).
Given that Mail doesn't have outgoing rules, this would be a neat
trick. I was referring to scriptable rules, not rule actions.
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.
We have no plans to provide applescript support for features that Mail
does not support.
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.
We have no plans to provide applescript support for features that Mail
does not support.
Mail does let me script rule creation, which is nice, but being able to
differentiate between POP and IMAP accounts would be better.
Why should it matter whether a message originates from a POP or an IMAP
account? Rules functionality for IMAP and POP is identical (in Mail, at
least), so this wouldn't make much sense. We could add it if you can
come up with a compelling reason why scripters would care about this.
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.
We have no plans to provide applescript support for features that Mail
does not support.
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.
Every parameter that can be set for both IMAP accounts and POP accounts
in preferences can be set via script.
I know that it is a LOT faster to get stuff done in E'rage, but then,
most
Cocoa dictionaries are a tad odd.
Some examples would help here. They look the same posted on my wall.
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.
Whoops, sorry about that. I thought that was part of 10.2.3. One of my
personal missions is to make sure selection support makes it to Cocoa,
so wish me luck.
- cricket
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