Re: Selecting messages in Outlook Express
Re: Selecting messages in Outlook Express
- Subject: Re: Selecting messages in Outlook Express
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 15:08:33 +1100
On 6/3/03 1:39 PM +1000, Paul Berkowitz, email@hidden, wrote:
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Dan has always followed Apple protocols (if only Apple did the
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same...) So he had to implement all this stuff, which he did first in Claris
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Emailer, then in OE, then in Entourage. It doesn't mean he likes it, nor
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that I do. The 'address of address of recipient' business is ridiculous for
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a start. It's idiotic that there should be an 'address' class of type record
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which has an 'address' property of type string. But that's what it says in
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the Mail Suite.
Surely that doesn't preclude developing a parallel suite that makes more
sense.
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For example, the Mail Suite stipulates that you make a recipient of an
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outgoing message this way:
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make new outgoing message with properties {subject:"foo", content:"bar",
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recipient:{recipient type:(to recipient),
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address:{address:"email@hidden", display name:"Joe Blow"}}
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That always works in OE and Entourage. But, for the usual default of just
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one 'to recipient', Dan has implemented this shortcut:
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make new outgoing message with properties {subject:"foo",
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content:"bar", recipient:"Joe Blow <email@hidden>"}
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Now what's wrong with that?
People ring me late at night -- and I'm not making this up, it happened last
night -- and they've seen samples of this, so they're trying to do the
reverse and read the recipient property of a message.
--
Shane Stanley, email@hidden
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