my rule script to open mailboxes
my rule script to open mailboxes
- Subject: my rule script to open mailboxes
- From: Kim Holburn <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 13:40:09 +1000
I get a lot of email and have a lot of mailboxes and a lot of
rules/filters. I always liked Eudora's option of opening a mailbox
window when I get new mail. Mail.app doesn't do this so I created an
applescript that will do this with Mail.app (with help from bjterry on
this list).
http://www.holburn.net/software/open-mbox-applescript.txt
I have three problems with this solution though:
1) Unfortunately this causes Mail.app to become very unresponsive when
getting a few mails because applescript is so slow and because of the
peculiar way you have to use to get applescript to open message viewer
windows in Mail.app. I can live with that though, although I can't
write a new email while Mail.app is getting the mail which is annoying.
2) I would like to get the script to get Mail.app to create the new
message viewer behind the current windows. It's probably some
applescript weirdness like:
set theWindow to make new message viewer with properties {visible:true}
at end of windows
Anyone know the right syntax?
3) The script and Mail.app have a very annoying habit though. If I
close all the message viewer windows and open a new message to write an
email then when Mail.app gets new mail and my script opens a new
mailbox viewer it opens in some kind of default settings with default
window size and default set of columns. It has now forgotten my
mailbox viewer size and column settings and I have to recreate them all
over again. VERY annoying. This doesn't happen if I leave a mailbox
viewer window open while I'm writing a new email. Anyone have any
ideas about how to fix this?
Kim
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Kim Holburn
IT Manager, Canberra Research Laboratory
National Information and Communication Technology Australia
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