> On 9/25/02 5:56 AM, "Russell Fabry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Can someone tell me how to get a message to be download from an IMAP >> account BEFORE a script runs on it? I posted earlier about an old >> script I had for saving text of messages automatically not working >> with my IMAP account, and was told to try the E List for advice on >> how to get the message to download before the text exporting is done. >> Anyone know how I would do this? I can email the script to anyone >> who'd like to help. > > Rules which run automatically run as soon as a message arrives in the Inbox. > In the case of IMAP messages, that means the IMAP INBOX, so it really means > "as soon as the headers are downloaded from the IMAP INBOX to your > computer". So yes, they will start running before the message body has fully > downloaded. You could choose not to run the rule automatically in Rules, but > instead manually (Message/Apply Rule) on messages you select. You could > perhaps run the script from a Schedule instead of from a rule: you would > have to add lines to it to get it to run on messages of a particular folder > (the 'IMAP Inbox folder of IMAP account "whatever"' if you have Entourage X, > or by name if in 2001) only if the the message's 'online status' is 'fully > downloaded' and if the message has not already been processed (tricky). > >
Great idea (Schedule). I guess if I could tell the script to run only if the messages were from Mailing Lists it would work. Too bad Schedules don't allow for "IF" statements. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
