Re: Scripting Mail:get selection
Re: Scripting Mail:get selection
- Subject: Re: Scripting Mail:get selection
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:51:06 -0800
On 2/24/03 1:49 PM, "cricket" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
Entourage has a more developed dictionary, but is missing some
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important stuff like scriptable rules, signatures, and the ability to
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fully script IMAP.
What do you mean, cricket? Can't script rules, for sure, but rules are very
complex in Entourage and you _can_ script virtually anything that a rule can
do in straight AppleScript. Why do you think you can't script signatures? Of
course you can. And what do you mean about IMAP? There are 43 properties of
'IMAP account' covering every single option in the Account settings window,
including such arcane possibilities as 'empty IMAP deleted items folder on
quit ', 'delete expired IMAP messages on quit after small integer', etc.
The only thing you can't do, currently, is move or duplicate a message on
the server. That is because Entourage is religious about following
AppleScript syntax. 'move' and 'duplicate' are both commands from the
Standard Suite, and both require a result returned - the message moved or
duplicated. Since some IMAP servers are lame or unreliable about returning
this type of result, 'move' and 'duplicate' remain un-implemented for the
time being, rather than promising something which may be compromised by a
server outside Entourage's control. I have made a feature request fro a
proprietary command which doesn't expect a result. We'll see.
Aside from that one single blip, comparing Mail to Entourage scripting is
rather laughable. You're surely not being serious? It would take a book to
exhaust Mail's lack of features compared to Entourage. Let's just say it's a
much simpler feature set - MUCH simpler - and avoid looking too closely at
its still often contorted syntax, shall we? I'm impressed with your efforts
and relative success to go on improving Mail's scriptability, and I'll look
back again in OS 10.3. I'd be extremely surprised if it ever compares with
Entourage, however. With that ambition, how did it ever get off to such a
poor start?
--
Paul Berkowitz
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