Re: Bug in Eudora?
Re: Bug in Eudora?
- Subject: Re: Bug in Eudora?
- From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 01:06:03 +0100
- Mac-eudora-version: 6.0a16
At 4:00 pm -0600 1/5/03, David Crowe wrote:
In the following snippet of Applescript:
set msgRef to make new message at end of mailbox "out"
tell msgRef
set field "Subject" to "test"
end tell
creates an email with the subject "test". But the following does not.
set msgRef to make new message at end of mailbox "out"
tell msgRef
set its subject to "test"
end tell
Tantalizingly, the window bar for this email does include the title,
but not the actual email.
Am I doing something wrong, or does Eudora have a little teeny bug?
Eudora's too old to have bugs in its aete -- just lacunae.
I see my last challenge was too quickly answered, so here, talking of
lacunae, is another one for Eudora Users.
*****
PUZZLE: To create, using Apple Events, and not GUI nonsense of
course, a new mailbox that will (this is the important bit)
immediately appear in the Mailbox menu and the Mailboxes window. It
IS possible.
*****
Subject and field subject are two different things. The subject is
the displayed subject in the box below the title, which is what is
displayed in the summary also. You can change this to whatever you
want without altering the subject field, so if someone has sent you a
message with a blank or misleading subject field, you can change it
manually or by script. This does not apply to new outgoing messages
since you, the author, determine the subject field and can edit it.
tell application "Eudora"
tell front message
if outgoing then return
set two_things to {get subject, field "subj"}
end tell
end tell
{"Bug in Eudora?", "Subject: Bug in Eudora?"}
To change the subject FIELD of a received message, you need either 1)
to click the pencil button, edit and save, or 2) with AEvents open
the window, set field subject and save window, but there really is
never any need to do this because it's the subject that is important
to you.
To quote from the dictionary:
subject international text
-- the subject as appearing in the message summary
JD
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