On 7/12/04 10:51 pm, "Scott Haneda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> on 12/7/04 4:09 AM, Barry Wainwright at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> On 7/12/04 8:17 am, "Scott Haneda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> on 12/7/04 12:02 AM, Scott Haneda at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a web form that will be sending me emails that contain a single
>>>> email
>>>> address in the body, I want to somehow automate the process of getting that
>>>> email address into a group, how can I do this?
>>>
>>> I should mention, the subject has a passcode in it, that is how the script
>>> can identify these emails from others.
>>
>> OK, identifying the mail is easy - do that with a rule.
>>
>> Then, where in the body does the email address appear? You could parse the
>> whole mail looking for it, but that is less certain than extracting it from
>> a known location.
>
> The body of the email only contains one single email adress, your code below
> will work on that, but I suspect it is overkill since I just need the entire
> string.
>
>> This will extract the address, but I don't guarantee it's accuracy on all
>> addresses, especially if they contain non-ascii charcacters:
>>
>>
>> set thebody to "blah blah blah blah blah blah
>> blah blah blah blah blah. blah blah blah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> blah blah blah blah blah "
>> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"@"}
>> set theBits to text items of thebody
>> set theAddress to {get last word of item 1 of theBits, get first word of
>> item 2 of theBits} as string
>
> How do I set the body of the email to a variable?
Set theMessage to item 1 of (get current messages)
Set theaddress to content of theMessage
>
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