Okay, thanks! Here's a request to the Entourage team, then: could you please make the message history accessible via AppleScript? Maybe just as a list of properties (replied to on date <blah>, this was a reply to message ID <blah>, attachment <blah> removed on <foo>).
Happy new year all! --Mike > On 12/30/03 10:13 PM, "Michael J. Kobb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've been playing around with Entourage Email Archiver X and >> eMessageArchiver to archive my emails and their attachments. Neither one >> does exactly what I want, but both have their merits. >> >> The beauty of eMessageArchiver is that the scripts are included, and >> therefore editable, so I'm tweaking them a bit to suit my purposes (I'll >> contribute anything I think is useful to the author). >> >> One thing that would be a huge help in modifying the scripts would be if I >> could determine when a message used to have an attachment, but has had it >> removed. >> >> If I remove an attachment in Entourage, that fact is reflected in the >> history for that message -- "Attachment <name> was removed on <date>". >> >> I couldn't figure out how to get at this information from AppleScript. Is >> it possible? > > No. > >> >> The other thing I would like to do is modify eMessageArchiver so that it >> can save Entourage attachments during the archiving process, rather than >> losing the attachments when archived. I like how Entourage Email Archiver >> structures folders in the Finder when it archives attachments, so I'd like >> to mirror this behavior. However, EEA has a problem: if multiple >> attachments have the same name, it punts all but the first. Is there a >> simple way to save an attachment the same way that it would work if I >> dragged it to the Finder (where it would be automatically renamed with a >> number to make it unique)? > > It's never simple, since you need an armload of handlers for dealing with > situations such as "same file name exists already", "same file name with ' > 1' added on exists already", etc. etc, etc., replacing colons with "-", etc. > But it's all possible. I think if you write to the eMA mailing list, you may > find it's been done before. > -- Support Free Speech OPPOSE DIANNE FEINSTEIN (Feinstein and Orrin Hatch are co-sponsors of a Constitutional amendment to ban burning the American flag) -- 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/>
