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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 20:32:10 -0400
  • Thread-topic: invoke script when email opened ?

On 10/3/10 8:19 PM, "Doug McNutt" <email@hidden> wrote:

>> 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.
>>
>
> OK.  If it's your AppleScript that you're attaching to a message after it is
> received I don't have any problem.

The OP was really quite clear about this.



>
> I read the original as a way to develop the AppleScript at the sending end,
> perhaps as a MIME attachment. It would be run on the destination machine when
> the message is opened. I remain convinced that that ought to be impossible.

You can, technically do this now anyway. Email comes in with an applescript
as an attachment, a rule with a script processes the attachment. If it's the
right kind, run the script in (Apple)Script Editor.

It just takes a lot of work and setup, but sure, you can do that now, and I
can think of a few cases where it could be pretty cool to do so.

--
I had no system of shooting as such. It is definitely more in the feeling
side of things that these skills develop. I was at the front five and a half
years, and you just got a feeling for the right amount of lead.
-- Lt. General Guenther Rall, GAF.


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