Re: Selecting messages in Outlook Express
Re: Selecting messages in Outlook Express
- Subject: Re: Selecting messages in Outlook Express
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 20:21:53 -0800
On 3/5/03 8:08 PM, "Shane Stanley" <email@hidden> wrote:
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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.
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Surely that doesn't preclude developing a parallel suite that makes more
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sense.
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Oh, I think if you work for a company that is often accused ignoring
protocols and you decide that your app never will do so, it probably does
preclude it. I'm not sure what the rationale was for Emailer, but I'd guess
that wanting to be a good Apple citizen probably played a part in OE and
Entourage.
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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?
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People ring me late at night -- and I'm not making this up, it happened last
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night -- and they've seen samples of this, so they're trying to do the
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reverse and read the recipient property of a message.
So it would have been better to leave it out? An interesting thought.
Anyway, I hope you refer them to to the Dictionary.
(For the record, it was Shane who first explained this OE stuff to me when
I was just starting AppleScript.)
--
Paul Berkowitz
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