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Re: invoke script when email opened ?
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Re: invoke script when email opened ?


  • Subject: Re: invoke script when email opened ?
  • From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 19:48:30 -0400
  • Thread-topic: invoke script when email opened ?

On 10/3/10 12:42 PM, "Doug McNutt" <email@hidden> wrote:

>> Is it possible to invoke an AS when an email is opened in Mail ?  What I
>> would like to do is conditionally increase the text size ( Format > Style >
>> Bigger ) of some emails.
>>
>
> If you send the email as HTML you have control over fonts and other styles.
> But then it will probably go straight to my junk mailbox. I did use HTML to
> create mail to a nearly blind friend so there are reasons.
>
> Running an AppleScript as a result of reading the email is an absolute
> invitation to malware bastards.  Don't even think about it. Leave those ideas
> in the hands of Active-X.

Got the tinfoil hat a bit tight there. It's no more dangerous than being
able to attach a script to a rule that acts on an incoming message.

--

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A: All my autopsies are performed on dead people.


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