Thanks a lot Paul. Applescript is either a brilliantly easy program, or I’m missing something. I created a compiled script with your later change and received no errors when “checking syntax”. It seemed to run perfectly and prompted me nicely about my category and one contact that already existed, but when I checked my addressbook none of the new contacts had been added.
Netscape has this nifty option to “Add All to Addressbook” that works with this, so I may be drawing false distinctions bet CC and To fields for E2001. In E2001, when viewing an email in preview pane, are the “To” field contacts sent by the original sender using the “CC” field? I had thought that if one entered addresses individually into the “To” field that only the individual recipient is viewable and that only CCs can be viewed by everyone emailed. I have rec’d an email in which each contact is listed individually in the “To” field as First Last names <mailto:####@domain.com> with semi-colons separating each entry. Can I assume that this is not a group and therefore I should be able to use your script, or is the problem that they are not contained in the “CC” field?
Sorry, Mark, but i cant understand your question. Can you ask again slower, and forget about Netscape?
If the sender (why "original", is there more than one sender, or has the message been forwarded?) puts everyone in the "To" field, they will still be in the "To" field when you get the email in Entourage, as you can see for yourself. In Preview Pane, there's only room to display one or two recipients. but if you open the message into its own window, you'll see all the recipients listed under "To". Not "Cc". Why should Entourage, or any email program, mess around with what the sender did? (Mailing lists are different - here the mailing list is one of the "To" recipients.) If the sender put them into "Cc" they'll be in "Cc". If the sender put them in Bcc or "Undisclosed recipients" (group not showing), you won't see them at all.
So, it sounds as if you want to add not only CC recipients, but ALL recipients other than yourself, right? That makes much more sense - I thought you must have a number of weird correspondents that put everyone into the Cc. Why didn't you ask for that, or explain what you really wanted? i just did what you asked - you should be careful what you ask for, as they say, because you might get it. you got it. I planned to change the script to "All other recipients" before releasing it to ASC anyway. I'll change it to accommodate all other recipients.
In Entourage, you should NOT be seeing multiple recipients, whether in To or CC fields, separated by semicolons. They are separated by commas. i have no idea what a semi-colon demarcated list would be - Entourage would reject such a thing if you tried to forward to it. Could you check that, please? Commas, yes?
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Paul Berkowitz
