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Re: applescript in Mail.app
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Re: applescript in Mail.app


  • Subject: Re: applescript in Mail.app
  • From: cricket <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:06:58 -0800

If you don't want to do anything with the message received, then ignore the 'info' variable being passed in. My example illustrates everything you _can_ do with an Applescript rule action, but if all you wanted to do was display a dialog, for example, you could write a script like this:

on perform_mail_action(info)
display dialog "Hi!"
end

- cricket

On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 9:32 AM, Mike wrote:

Thanks for the reply cricket but I still don't understand the concept. I
don't want to do anything with the message being received, I have an stand
alone applescript crafted from one of the Apple examples to create a new
mail message. This applescript launches Safari, loads a default homepage,
copies the title and text of a local.machine default webpage to a new Mail
message and sends it to a web email address for remote retrieval. When I
run the "sendWebPage" script, it performs as expected. Now, I want Mail.app
to execute the script when the rule evaluates the subject line and matches
the appropriate text. That is where I am hung up.....the rule doesn't run
the external script. Maybe I am asking the impossible. I don't have a lot
of experience writing applescripts but have been pretty successful in
modifying examples from sources like this list to do my bidding.

Thanks again for your help.

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