Paul wrote:
> It's doable, but a little messy. The only way you can remove recipients is
> parsing the long "to recipients", "CC recipients" and "BCC recipients" text
> strings of a draft window (which is what you have here, so that's OK). So
> the handy "whose" filtering of message recipient addresses is not applicable
> here. When you drag a contact to a draft window this will always translate
> to the display name plus the _default_ email address, which makes it easier
> - unless you have someone entered as a non-contact (with the @ sign) with a
> non-default address as a group member - which makes it harder. If you drag
> groups into message windows, which people do, this makes it harder because
> you might have some group members who aren't real contacts.
>
> I can't do this today, but I will look at it tomorrow. There's a lot of text
> parsing to be done.
>
> --
> Paul Berkowitz
>
> On 1/26/01 10:36 AM, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On or near 1/26/2001 9:56 AM, R. Scott Ohlgren at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> observed:
>>
>>> When ever I send a message to a large group of my Address Book, I find that
>>> the easiest way to do that is via the Custom View. I¹ll highlight all names
>>> in one particular sub set, and drag them into my message. If I have multiple
>>> sub sets I¹m dragging in, a problem arises when I have some people
>>> associated to multiple sub sets. They end up getting the message 2 or 3
>>> times.
>>>
>>> Has anyone written a script that checks the emails of a message for
>>> duplicates, before one sends the email?
>>>
>> Hm. Interesting idea.
>>
>> Answer is, no, I don't think so. But if Paul read your message, it's
>> probably already done. The script would just set a variable with a list of
>> the E-mail addresses being used for each recipient, and then look for
>> duplicates. Shouldn't be too hard. I wouldn't match on actual names, since
>> often I have people who want to receive two copies of mail at different
>> addresses (e.g., work and home). If Paul does not get to it, I'll put it on
>> my back burner...
Thanks, Paul. This would be such a handy script! I do this kind of emailing
a lot, where I'm placing 3 or 4 category groups into one email, yet knowing
that some people are in more than one of those groups, thus the duplicate
messages.
Are you saying that it could be a problem if there are Groups mixed in with
the individual records? If so, I don't mind having to open up the Groups, so
that only individual records are placed in the message. I was even thinking
that, if there was a way to simply "sort" all the names A-Z, at least a
quick glance could spot most of the dupes.
It sure seems that other people must have this dilemma, and need, as well.
Scott
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