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Re: Starting a process when Mail starts - possible?
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Re: Starting a process when Mail starts - possible?


  • Subject: Re: Starting a process when Mail starts - possible?
  • From: fortepianissimo <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 16:14:23 -0700 (PDT)

>> Basically I'd like to find an AppleScript solution to bootstrap a
>> process when Mail starts. This script will need to "do shell script"
>> inside, and the process running in background will quit when Mail
>> quits.

>Would it be enough simply to "tell app "Mail" to run" as part of your
>script and only start Mail by means of the script, or does it have to
>be bulletproof?
>Michael

Well the idea is to not to change users usage pattern - so they still
click on Mail icon to launch mail, but the service provided by the
process will also be automatically available.

(Basically, doing what Mail bundle can do, but via AppleScript)




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