Re: How to Burst PowerList digests with Entourage

[Allen Watson]

Title: Re: How to Burst PowerList digests with Entourage

On or near 2/12/01 9:27 AM, Steve Frawley at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:

> I used to be able to burst the PowerList digests with OE5, but haven’t been
> able to since switching to Entourage.
>
> Any ideas from script gurus or others?
>
Are you saying the mailing list manager does not burst the digest, although you have set it to do so?

Or, did you use a script in OE? If so, which one? I have converted (but not posted) several mailing list bursting scripts. Finally, before getting a special script, just try this one in your script editor, with a digest message selected in Entourage. It uses the built-in "burst" command:

set doDialog to false -- Suppress dialog
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
    activate
    set theList to current messages
    if (count of theList) is 0 then
        display dialog "Nothing selected."
        return
    end if
    repeat with theMsg in theList
        if class of theMsg is not incoming message then
            display dialog "Bursting only works on incoming messages."
            return
        end if
        
        set msgProduced to burst theMsg
        set msgCount to count of msgProduced
        if msgCount < 1 then
            display dialog "The message does not seem to be a digest."
            return
        else
            if doDialog then display dialog ("Burst " & msgCount & " messages")
            try
                set read status of theMsg to read
                delete theMsg
            end try
        end if
    end repeat
end tell
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Peace,
Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> XNS name: =Allen Watson
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