On 3/24/03 11:13 AM Rick Lecoat wrote: >Received from: Daniel Ross >At: 9:17 pm (GMT) on Mon, Mar 24, 2003 > >>Opps! I found that somehow I had changed a condition on a filter. It was >>my fault. The window comes up because I had somehow changed an "Action" >>in a filter to "execute script" and the script was "delete immediately." >>Sorry. > >This raises a point of general safety; If you have a filter set to run an >applescript and then that applescript is then removed from the scripts >folder (perhaps because it was a 3rd party one) then the filter, not >finding the script it is looking for, will default to the first >applescript in the list, sorted alphanumerically. Unfortunately, under a >basic installation, this is Delete Message Immediately, and so it is >possible that by removing one applescript from your setup, one or more >filters could get changed to delete mail irrevocably, without you >necessarily being aware of it. This is obviously not ideal, and the best >option to prevent it is to simply rename the "Delete..." script so that it >is no longer first in the list. (I renamed mine to be "X-Delete message >immediately"). Under a standard installation, the first script in the >list will then be "Delete v-card attachments", which is much less >dangerous should it accidentally get selected as described above.
It would be even better if a script could send you a warning message. To accomplish this, write a script with only one line, as follows: display dialog "One of your mail filters has requested a script that does not exist." Name it !NoSuchScript. The exclamation mark sorts it to the top of your script list. Then you have a predictable result and will know what has happened. Len -- Leonard Morgenstern [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send me a letter Via e-mail Send it in care of birminghamjail.ala.gov.
