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Re: Setting signatures in Mail.app from osascript
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Re: Setting signatures in Mail.app from osascript


  • Subject: Re: Setting signatures in Mail.app from osascript
  • From: LuKreme <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 07:50:04 -0600

On 11-Apr-2008, at 11:54, Laine Lee wrote:
set myname to system attribute "USER"
set shellscrpt to "ps -c -U " & myname & " | awk '/Mail/{print $4}'"
do shell script "echo" & space & (quoted form of shellscrpt) & space & "|
/bin/bash"
--> "Mail"


Took me a while, but I did finally get a working shell version of this.

#!/bin/sh

osascript \
-e "set myname to system attribute \"USER\"" \
-e "set shellscpt to \"ps -c -U \" & myname & \" | awk '/Mail/ {print \$4}'\""\
-e "set myMail to do shell script \"echo\" & space & (quoted form of shellscpt) & space & \"| /bin/bash\" " \
-e "if myMail = \"Mail\" then "\
-e " set fortune to do shell script \"/opt/local/bin/fortune /Users/ kreme/mysigs\""\
-e " tell application \"Mail\" to set content of signature \"Fortune \" to \"-- \" & return & fortune"\
-e "end if"


I should probably throw it in a try/on error loop for those times mail.app misbehaves, but that will need to be a project for tomorrow.

just something like "with timeout of 5 seconds" after that if, I suppose.

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