Re: scripting "Mail"
Re: scripting "Mail"
- Subject: Re: scripting "Mail"
- From: Hudson Barton <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:05:21 -0500
At 8:32 AM +0000 3/14/03, John Delacour wrote:
At 12:07 am -0500 14/3/03, Hudson Barton wrote:
I agree with you completely concerning the hopelessly sloppy
"Mail". I'm hoping however that your frustration drags you back to
Eudora to fix/improve/expand the scripts on your website. It just
seems to be a better use of both your and our time. I'd really
like (but have been unsuccessful at creating) a synchonization
routine for Eudora and "Addressbook". If I had this, it would be
one less reason to want "Mail".
I am half way through writing such a script, which is quite a task,
and not too pleasant a one because I think I could easily develop an
aversion to AB just as strong as that I have to Mail. Thank
goodness for Script Editor 2 and Safari, which show that there is
hope yet! Some day in the future there is going to be an emsapi
plug-in to do this in both directions -- at the moment I have one
that populates Address Book from Eudora -- but another important
feature has priority at the moment and our author is making no
promises.
Yes. That's exactly the problem. It's impossible to populate Eudora
from the Address Book. I'm quite sure that this is Eudora's problem
rather than yours.... but it just goes to show how frustrating it can
be to actually accomplish anything useful in Applescript.
I am in process of building a new site at
<http://www.bd8.com/eudora/scripting/>
which you are welcome to peep at, but it changes daily and it will
be a while before it is complete. If you (or anyone) have any
suggestions or requests, I'll be happy to hear them off list, and
particularly any scripts on the old site that are broken.
I really hate to point up an inconsistency, but your new site clearly
states that it has not been updated since March 16, 2000. That's
exactly three (3) years ago. Where, pray tell, are the daily changes?
In particular let me know how far you would want the EU/AB synch to
go, since both Eudora and AB allow custom fields.
I think it should go all the way, ideally. In other words, the
[only] value in "Mail" is its sychronicity with the universal
AddressBook. If synchronicity could be established between Eudora
and the Addressbook, then Mail becomes totally superfluous.
H.
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