Okay, thanks! Note to Entourage team: please consider this a feature request to allow further processing after an AppleScript.
> The rules interface doesn't allow further rules to be processed on a message > if a preceding rule runs an AppleScript or moves a message. That's why you > see the box grayed out on some of your rules. You'll probably need to add > the Run AppleScript action to your existing rules. I agree that following > that method is quite tedious, but at the moment that's the only way to do > it. > > On 1/2/04 8:48 PM, "Michael J. Kobb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Howdy, >> >> I'm sorry if this is a FAQ. >> >> I'm making progress on my scripting of Entourage to process attachments >> the way I want. >> >> One thing to help keep attachments in check is to get rid of the annoying >> crap that various programs attach to every message. So far, I have >> identified: >> >> winmail.dat >> smime.p7s >> signature.asc >> >> I wrote a little AppleScript which will remove any of these attachments >> from a message but leave any other attachments alone (*). >> >> I then wanted to have this script run by a rule (if any attachment had a >> name matching one of the ones I want to nuke) so that my incoming mail would >> be stripped of this crud. However, I've begun to notice that a great many >> of my rules (including the one I wrote for this) have the "Don't apply other >> rules to messages that meet these criteria" box checked and greyed-out so >> that I basically can't apply this rule to any message that gets processed by >> one of my rules, and I can't apply other rules to ones that get processed by >> this one. >> >> Am I missing something? Can I not apply any other rules to a message that >> has had an AppleScript run on it? None of my other rules apply AppleScripts >> -- they just file the message in the right folder. I guess I could add the >> AppleScript to each of my other rules, since the script will work fine if >> there are no attachments, but that's awfully clumsy... >> >> Thanks! >> --Mike >> >> (*) Request to Entourage team: it would be really nice to be able to write a >> rule to remove attachments with a particular name. But, it doesn't look >> like there's a way to do this without AppleScript -- I can only remove all >> attachments. -- [T]his Court's obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate its own moral code -- 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/>
