The latest version of Digest Viewer, which displays a digest saved as a text
file in separate messages, arranged by date or by subject, and allows quick
viewing. It has always been able to reply to the mailing list, or author, or
both, but it did not quote the message text you were replying to.
The latest version added the ability to write plug-in modules in
Applescript, for various clients. I have written a simple one for Entourage,
and am including it in this message since it is fairly short. It will quote
only the entire message (you can cut out parts you don't need), and the
attribution line has only the E-mail address, no name, since that is all the
program passes to the script. Nor does it pass me the time the message was
sent! When replying to the list, alas, the address is the list address, so
it says something like: "Some time prior to <current date and time>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:". I've asked the author to pass more
complete information in a future release.
on run {the_address, the_subject, the_body}
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
activate
set whoSent to "<" & (text 8 thru -1 of the_address) & ">"
set tagline to "Some time prior to " & date string of (current date)
& ", " & time string of (current date) & ¬
" " & whoSent & " wrote:" & return & return
set t to paragraphs of the_body
set new_body to tagline
-- Insure a space after ">"
repeat with aLine in t
set not_gt to 0
if aLine begins with ">" and (length of aLine) > 1 then
repeat with i from 2 to length of aLine
if character i of aLine is not ">" then
set not_gt to i
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
-- display dialog aLine
if character not_gt of aLine is not " " then set aLine to ¬
text 1 thru (not_gt - 1) of aLine & " " & text not_gt
thru -1 of aLine
end if
set new_body to new_body & aLine & return
end repeat
copy (make new draft window with properties ¬
{subject:the_subject, content:new_body, to recipients:whoSent})
to theMsg
open theMsg
end tell
end run
If you have Digest Viewer 3.0b9 or higher, compile the above script and save
it in the Plug In folder inside the Digest Viewer folder. Then select it in
Preferences in the program.
Digest Viewer can be found on line. The author, Matthew Hershberger, writes:
You can get new versions of Digest Viewer, along with other software I've
made, at www.macinsearch.com/users/mjh.
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Peace be with you!
Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> XNS Name: =Allen Watson
My web page: <http://home.earthlink.net/~allenwatson/>
Scripts for OE and Entourage: <http://homepage.mac.com/allenwatson/>
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