Re: Mail Schedules in 10.5
Thanks! I thought I was crazy and couldn't figure out why I was having this problem. Wayne
Re: Powermail support (Was: Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread)
Mikael: I think the thing to understand is that when PowerMail was developed it was developed as something that was 100% RFC compatible. Currently there are some things that are under discussion, by other companies and not full panels on HTML email. Thus, I would argue that there isn't anything wrong with PowerMail sticking by the non-HTML model as the primary email mode. Others are changing the way email works outside the RFC committees and honestly, I'm not sure that is the best model, but everybody is doing it. Things are changing. Maybe we won't have email anymore, we'll have video messages, who knows. You also seem to put up more of a stink than anybody on this list about what's right and wrong with PowerMail, and HTML seems to be your #1 concern, which is simply a minor footnote for a lot of others. That's where CTM gets to decide what they feel the community needs and where they want to spend their efforts. I could go on-and-on, but I won't. I will merely say that I think you're just as obnoxious with your HTML is everything tirades you go on every few months. Wayne
Re: No PowerMail selection in iPhoto '08
You are right! I had downloaded iPhoto Mailer Patcher ages ago which allows iPhoto preferences to select any email application. I had totally forgotten that I had installed it. Well, it doesn't work with the new version of iPhoto, unfortunately. And it is a pain to work around it. If anyone has any ideas or fixes, let me know. -Jaede Have you tried to open the contents of iPhoto 08? (OPTION, click, then choose show package contents). Open the resource folder, and look for a Scripts folder. If that's there I'll bet all you have to do is add the PowerMail script and .TiF image that the patcher put there for you. Wayne -- Nature can survive without man--in fact, that may be its salvation--but man cannot survive without nature. - Homero Aridjis
Re: A network interface error occurred - this is bad
Somebody has already asked this. But have you tried logging in with another email client. This would eliminate the issue of it being a PowerMail problem. Wayne -Original Message- From: The Monster Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Aug 29, 2007 11:31 AM To: PowerMail discussions powermail-discuss@ctmdev.com, Marlyse Comte [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A network interface error occurred - this is bad On 8/29/07 at 11:27 AM, Marlyse Comte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: I had it already happen in a similar case that I just had to re-enter the password in PM - even though it hadn't changed. marlyse, Yeah, I thought that too - have re-entered it (superstitiously) probably a half a dozen times already. :-\ Steve
Re: annoying problem with power mail
I am away for a few weeks, maybe more, and will not available by; email; And when you get back, we will have to teach you HOW to setup your out of office auto replies! Wayne -- sans la Musique la Vie serait une Erreur Without music, life would be a serious mistake. - Frederich Nietzsche
Re: annoying problem with power mail
i put a screenshot on http://www.monokultur.com/pm/problem.jpg Sorry, but this shot doesn't help to understand the problem. Could you please show it with filled-in (fictive) name and/or mail-address? Anyway your Mail-Window looks strange. I miss the column-names (in german=: Als [for To/CC/BCC] and Name and Konto: [for your account] as well). Here within lies the problem. I too have seen it. It seems to occur at random. I haven't been able to figure out how to consistently reproduce the problem. On the other hand, it doesn't seem to affect the operation other than being super annoying. BTW, a new installation of PM isn't going to fix this issue. It really is somewhat random. And as somebody else mentioned, it does seem to happen less often now that I'm on an Intel Mac. Wayne
Re: PM Looking for Adobe Illustrator
This sounds more like an AppleScript issue. Do you have any filters that use AppleScripts? If so, does one look for Illustrator? That would be my first guess. Look and see what filters are running. Turn them all off as a test and slowly add them back. See which one causes the problem, then go from there. Wayne
Re: PM Quits Now
You should send your crash report into CTMDev. They can help you decide what is causing the problem. Wayne -Original Message- From: T.L. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jun 14, 2007 10:53 AM To: PowerMail powermail-discuss@ctmdev.com Subject: PM Quits Now Away for a week, come back and PM 5.5.3 on my iMactel running 10.4.9 has quit on me 4 or 5 times in a day -- highly unusual. The only change is that I installed Safari 3.0. I have compacted the database and search index, but it has quit since. It's a little difficult to believe that the new Safari is responsible, but this is strange. Tom Miller .. The only time we see the middle of the road is as we run from side to side. R.O.Clark ...
Re: Embedding a logo
How do I embed a logo in my text signature? Thanks, Bill You mean like a .gif or .jpg image? If so, you don't. That is not supported by PowerMail, that would be a feature supported via HTML or RTF mail, neither of which are supported (or supported to that extent). Wayne -- Music is spiritual. The music business is not. - Van Morrison
Re: More problem with printing
If Powermail will not present us with a print dialog box prior to printing that causes additional problems: I forget why that was the chosen option when using the print icon. However if you use the keyboard shortcut of cmd-P, or FilePrint you have all of these options. You can also use the pull-down menu from the printer icon and any of those options present a print dialog as well. Wayne
Re: bcc not consistently working
was there ANYTHING special about these 2 messages? if not, the only thought I have on this is that maybe PM has a limit as to how many BCC's it can take and you have gone past that limit and the overflow is causing a bug? quickest solution I could think of is to make groups which contain 1,000 names and not more (so currently you would have 2 groups, 1 with 1,000 and one with 300) and then send the identical message to each group. hope this makes sense. just in case you are not somebody of many backups, hiccups like this mean orange alarm to at least now ensure you backup your address-book (and database would be a good idea too, and all your pref settings... you know, just in case). ---marlyse former message(s) quotes: - I use PM 5.5.3 on a MacBook Pro (2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo) with Tiger 10.4.9 and with 1 GB Ram. For years I've run an opt-in-only list, sending each message to myself with the members listed as BCCs. Gradually the list has grown and now I send several messages a day (news items, etc.) to the 1,300 members. That's a lot of BCC's. A lot of the new SPAM filters will also trigger with this many BCC recipients. I would check with the server admin of your ISP or the person in charge of your network and make sure they don't enforce any limits on BCC recipients. Also if you're starting to get to this limit, it might be time to start thinking about some sort of listserver instead of BCC'ing folks. Wayne -- No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. - Theodore Roosevelt
Re: bug or feature ?
It's not about that at all, it's really about giving PowerMail the ability to cope with the fact that it's not uncommon that people ( Some of these being folks that you have to deal with) send HTML-messages. Thanks for the insight into the people I have to deal with. ;-) I think there is universal agreement that HTML email sending and receiving on PM isn't what it could be. If the email client on the other end is setup correctly, it should be sending two parts in the email, a text part and the HTML part. The problem is, other applications have gotten sloppy and are assuming that every email client handles HTML and they aren't writing out a text part. So the problem is two-fold. Part of the issue is PM, the other part is the sending email client. The current way PM handles HTML email is usually adequate for most HTML emails I receive. But I can certainly understand a desire to have full rendering. There are a few additional workarounds. I wrote an AppleScript that uses BBedit's built-in HTML Text preview mode. Then puts this back into the message. This destroys the HTML content, but it does then allow PM to index the email properly, and from the feedback I have received, most people aren't concerned with the HTML content, only the text of the message. Again, this is not based on speculation, but actual feedback from people using that script. That doesn't mean a PowerMail user has to be able to *send* HTML- messages. Although, we do have that ability. You create your HTML email in the HTML editor of choice. Save out the file, and use that as your enclosure in a blank message the individual you are sending the email to. Speculations of other things ought to get higher priority are most unvelcome. CTM can decide that without our speculations. I don't think I was speculating and where do you suppose they or any other company determine what gets priority? From it's user base. One of the other email lists I'm on has a lot of sound engineers on it, we all own the same multi-track field recorder. The company uses that list to determine what priority it should assign to fixes and enhancements. If CTM Dev isn't using this list to gauge priorities (and historically they have), they how would they know what issues we are facing. Now that we've beaten this topic to death, can we leave it alone? I'm sure I'm not the only one really tired of it at this point. Wayne
Re: Applescript not triggering, WAS Attachment link failing
Wayne; Thanks for the illumination. Can you then hazard a guess as to why my Tagging script (well, not 'mine' but used by me) fails if filters further down the filter list are set to move the attachment? If PM waited for the script to finish its job, as you say, then the later filters should not interfere with it at all, surely? Rick That's interesting, that's not how it's suppose to work. I'll have to do some playing around to see what I can uncover. Wayne
Re: bug or feature ?
After reviewing CTM's web site I can't find any reference to HTML at all. My comments relate to not following Mac standards, and confusing operation. They have nothing to do with as advertised, but with the program I am using. HTML mail is not a mac standard. In fact, it is NOT an email standard at. I do understand a lot of people use mail programs that use HTML mail. And I receive my fair share. However, I find that most of the HTML email is simply fluff that can be done away with and doesn't really help most email between correspondents. Where it does help is in advertising and newsletter style emails. However, don't mix up HTML with an email standard, it is not, and you can look at the RFC standards to confirm that. Most of us using Powermail as mentioned, do so because we like not having RTF and HTML email. Wayne -- Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Re: Re(2): bug or feature ?
do you think users would accept this behavior from any other mainstream Mac program without complaining? What if Word could not print RTF files correctly, since they are not Word format files? Of course you picked the wrong file format for the wrong product. ;-) RTF is of course a MS creation and was one of the original Word formats (and still is). However, I understand your point. I guess because I've lived with the limitation for so long and because I tend to view the few HTML email I want in a web browser, I don't consider this a huge issue. I agree it's an issue, but not the four-alarm type. In all fairness, if you're receiving a lot of HTML and RTF mail, you really shouldn't use PowerMail. It's an awesome email program, but it's really designed for text. All the HTML efforts have been limited because that's not what it was designed to be. You really have two options at this point. Either use the workaround of viewing and printing in a web browser, or switch to another email client. I doubt that a ton of effort is going to be spent on this issue because most of us don't really use that feature often and I, and I'm sure others, would rather see CTM Dev spend their time improving or fixing other issues rather than HTML email. Wayne
Re: Default mail client
I have been using PM for about 3 weeks and the paid version for about a week. I have yet to discover the way to make PM my default mail client. Every time I click on an email address, my computer opens Mail. That's because the preference to change your email isn't where one would expect. To change it system wide, it's in??? Yep, Apple's Mail program. Open Mail, go to the Preferences and in the General Prefs tab, there is a setting for Default Mail Reader. Change it to PowerMail and you'll be set. Wayne
Re: Default mail client
Internet Preference Pane? Where's mine go? It doesn't exist. There was a huge discussion when I worked at Apple about this. Basically it came down to the 'it's our OS and our application' ... I was aware of some 3rd party internet panes though. Wayne
Re: curly quotes become 1, 2, 3
(Yes, I could fix it with an AppleScript, but CTM can fix it better. :)) It's interesting because I started working on a script last night and found that trying to use the content of the message got very messy pretty quickly. However, using the source (which is HTML) of the message was much easier to deal with, but it meant invoking something to deal with the HTML. I'll probably work on my script a bit more tonight and see where it goes, but I wasn't super happy with what I was seeing. Wayne
Re: exchange-server?
I was looking at my mail setup here at work and had forgotten an important part of my setup. When I was using Entourage, I used the standard Exchange settings. When our Admin told me that they also supported IMAP, I tried to use PowerMail. However, since so many of the emails in my company are sent using RTF or HTML, it just wasn't working for me. Instead of going back to Entourage, I tried Apple's Mail application. It seemed to be a good compromise. Wayne
Re: greeting card malware?
Greeting Card.exe Happy New Year OS X ??? How can you be infected with a worm which is an .exe-file on Mac OS? That is impossible. Sounds to me as if someone else (using Windows) is infected and the worm uses your domainname to send mails to (sometimes non existing) mailboxes. You beat me to it. ;-) Spam in general seems to be way up recently. One day last week I had 399 spam messages, then two days later it was 350. It's gotten to a point that real mail is less than 2% of all my emails. :-( Wayne
Re: Ultimate Spam
(2) What is the best way to deal with the relatively recent phenomenon of GIF spam. You know the ones. The Subject and body are random text. The attachment is a graphic containing the spam pitch. I haven't been able to derive a common identifier for them in the headers, and they are not easy to define in a spam rule. SpamSieve seems to be catching about 99.9% of these for me. If you're not using that product, I would suggest you look at it. Wayne
Re: Newbie Query #3 (Deleting Attachments)
I've tried find a way to manually delete attachments from outgoing messages (they normal exist somewhere already) but had no luck despite searching this list and Google. Any help would be welcome. Leave them. All attachments are simply linked to the original and aren't added to the database. For example, if you attached a photo that was on your desktop called picture 1.png to a message, when you look at it in the Out Tray, it displays an attachment icon. If you click once on the item, then hold down the control key, you'll notice you have options for Open Attachment, Show in Finder, and Get Finder Info. If you Show in Finder, it pops you out to the item on your desktop. Now, go back to the Out Tray, drag the item from the message and place it into the trash. Now, Open up a finder window and look on the desktop for picture 1.png, you won't find it because it is now in the trash. So you really don't have to delete them if your trying to keep your database small because they aren't in your database. Hope this helps. Wayne -- Somebody's dead forever... - Somebody Got Murdered -- Joe Strummer (1952-2002)
Re: sending email at a specific date and time.
you could achieve that with AppleScript, I guess. Actually you would probably be best served by a combo of cron and AppleScript. This is how I created a ton of automatic email messages that were sent from Apple Support. Wayne
Re: New for PowerMail
I haven't used Sidewinder, but I use SpamX and it works great. If there is any downside, reporting open relays, and worms to ISPs rarely seems to make a dent in the amount of SPAM. Most of the SPAM today are worms that Windows folks are running without knowing it. A recent EU study said that nearly 80% of the traffic in the EU was SPAM. I find that very troublesome. I can upgrade to sidewinderx for $10, since I own SpamX, so I might just do this. This way it removes one of the steps I have to manually perform. Wayne -Original Message- From: Richard Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dec 6, 2006 11:04 AM To: PowerMail Discussions powermail-discuss@ctmdev.com Subject: New for PowerMail Sidewinder now supports PowerMail. Has anyone tried it? Is it worth $19.95? http://www.sidewinderx.com/Welcome.html Richard Hart
Re: No way back - incomplete feature
Is there a way around this that I'm missing? Is there a way to set a message to Sent without sending? I couldn't find anything, but then I am a casual user of PowerMail. This can be done, but only through an AppleScript AFAIK. Wayne
Re: 2GB limit issue in 5.5?
On a related note, will the 2 gig limit be going away in a future version? Alternately, will we be able to use several databases simultaneously (i.e., let us split a 1.8 gig database into 3 or 4 smaller ones, but have them all open concurrently)? Can I ask a serious question? How often do people run into this 2 GB limit? I find myself every 6 months or so, going through and deleting hundreds of emails. I find that after 6 months I can usually get rid of 30% of my email, 1 year later I can get rid of even more mail. Usually I find for myself, that it's laziness rather than really needing email as the main reason I end up keeping so much of the email I have (do I really need Buy.com's daily specials 2 years later? --- don't laugh, I have found some on my computer). Anyhow, I just really wonder how many people really run into the 2 GB limit. Wayne
Re: How to get CC address via AppleScript
I didn't realize that is what you were trying to do... Here you go.
set CCList to {}
try
tell application PowerMail
activate
set msgList to the current messages
repeat with msg in msgList
set MyRecipients to every recipient of msg
repeat with i from 1 to count of MyRecipients
set MyLoopItem to item i of MyRecipients
if recipient type of MyLoopItem is cc recipient
then
set myTempAddress to address of
MyLoopItem
set myNewTempN to display name of
myTempAddressas string
set myNewTemp to email address of
myTempAddress as string
set TmpCC to myNewTempN
myNewTemp as string
set CCList to CCList TmpCC as list
-- SNIP of all my other junk
end if
end repeat
end repeat
end tell
end try
-Original Message-
From: Justin Beek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Oct 24, 2006 9:52 AM
To: PowerMail discussions powermail-discuss@ctmdev.com
Subject: Re: How to get CC address via AppleScript
They both work great for single CC's. However, I am still trying to
get multiple CC's to work.
So far the closest I can get is:
set CCList to {}
try
tell application PowerMail
activate
set msgList to the current messages
repeat with msg in msgList
set MyRecipients to every recipient of msg
repeat with i from 1 to count of MyRecipients
set MyLoopItem to item i of MyRecipients
if recipient type of MyLoopItem is cc recipient
then
set myTempAddress to address of
MyLoopItem
set myNewTempN to display name of
myTempAddressas text
set myNewTemp to email address of
myTempAddress as text
set CCList to CCList myNewTempN
myNewTemp as list
-- SNIP of all my other junk
end if
end repeat
end repeat
end tell
end try
Thanks to all that helped.
Justin Beek
On Oct 20, 2006, at 8:46 PM, Wayne Brissette wrote:
This one works
set CCList to {}
tell application PowerMail
set msgList to the current messages
repeat with msg in msgList
set MyRecipients to every recipient of msg
repeat with i from 1 to count of MyRecipients
set MyLoopItem to item i of MyRecipients
if recipient type of MyLoopItem is cc recipient then
set myTempAddress to address of MyLoopItem
set myNewTemp to email address of myTempAddress
as string
set CCList to CCList myNewTemp as list
end if
end repeat
end repeat
end tell
On Oct 23, 2006, at 2:39 AM, PowerMail Engineering wrote:
set recipList to recipients of msg
repeat with recip in recipList
if recipient type of recip is cc recipient then
set recipAddr to address of recip
display dialog display name of recipAddr email address
of recipAddr
end if
end repeat
Jérôme - PowerMail Engineering
Re: PM Discussion list
Do you really plan to be subscribed to this list for as long as you live? Probably... Or at least until I stop using the product (unlikely in the near future). :-) At this point you're simply sounding like a whiney baby. Give Jerome a chance to look into it. If you consider this list spam, mark it as such and it will go into the SPAM folder or simply filter it to the trash for the time being. Trust me, you don't want to flood us with email, then you would be considered outside your ISPs use agreement and could possibly have your account yanked. For now, just give it a rest. If the problem isn't solved in a couple of days, then maybe you need to rethink things. However, 99.99% of us on this list can't help you, we don't control the list or have admin privs on this list, so give us a break. Wayne
Re: multiple email addresses... FROM
Setup a new account (if you haven't already) for each email address. In most cases, you'll have none of them checking for email, only one or two (your usage will vary obviously). When you want to send from one of the secondary accounts, just make sure that is the account listed in the pulldown on the right side of the email. Wayne -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Oct 3, 2006 4:59 PM To: PowerMail discussions powermail-discuss@ctmdev.com Subject: multiple email addresses... FROM Hi everybody-- Anybody know how I can change which of my various email addresses is listed as the FROM: ? In Apple Mail there is the Account menu which allows me to choose [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or whatever. Am I missing something very obvious here? Also, any news on Powermail 6? m
Re: Message priority
I can certainly whip something up like this, however there is a gotcha. All mail would first have to be saved as a draft because filters don't run until after an item is sent, so there isn't a way to perform a filter on the message and there wouldn't be the proper headers before it is saved as a draft to add the following headers: X-Priority: 1 Priority: Urgent Importance: high In your case this doesn't sound like a problem, but for others, it's possible this will have no affect on their messages if their client or mail server doesn't support these. I'll work on a script for you when I get a chance. Wayne -Original Message- From: Alexander Balakersky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sep 27, 2006 11:22 AM To: PowerMail discussions powermail-discuss@ctmdev.com Subject: Message priority Hello everybody. I am trying to stick with PM as I like it very much, unfortunately, I am having an issue that will make me switch or loose my job :( I have figured out how to mark messages with different color according to their Priority settings (Using Filters on X-Priority, priority, importance headers). Unfortunately, I still cannot figure out how to set priority myself on the outgoing messages. If anybody can help I would greatly appreciate it. I would imagine that the best way would be to have a script that checks all outgoing messages for a set word/character in the Subject (for example word [HIGH] in brackets all capital), removes that word from subject and sets message header X-Priority to 2. If the word is [URGENT] then the header is set to 1, and so forth. If anybody has a script like that or is proficient enough in Apple script to write one, please let me know. Thank you -- Alexander Balakersky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Message priority
Since some time (PowerMail 5.0 maybe), outgoing filters are applied before sending, so they can change the account, add a BCC recipient and other useful things. Just goes to show you how I've let my scripting with PM languish. Thanks Jérôme! Wayne
Re: PowerMail Crashes after moving to newer Mac
You should send the crash log to CTM. They will help you determine what the problem is from the crash log. Wayne -Original Message- From: Art Wheat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Aug 17, 2006 8:47 AM To: powermail-discuss@ctmdev.com Subject: PowerMail Crashes after moving to newer Mac Hello: I've had a terrible time getting PowerMail to work on my new Mac. It will launch OK but when I open most other windows within the application it crashes. Any words of wisdom or help from someone who has had similar problems would be greatly appreciated. I'm running on a G5 iMac 2GB of RAM Mac OS X 10.4.7 (8J135) PowerMail 5.2.2 with SpamSeive 2.4 Sure would like to get back to using PowerMail. Thanks again for any help, Art -- Art Wheat SiteSteward, Inc. (585) 647-1101 - Voice mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.SiteSteward.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Re: Sig
I see there's a 'text signature' in the Applescript dictionary, so I suppose you could create an outgoing filter on the 'To' field, which would run an appropriate Applescript. But I can't help with the script, sorry. (and I do mean 'can't', not won't :) The problem as I remember it is that the filters don't happen until after the email has been composed and is ready to be shipped off. The only way to fix this would be to create an AppleScript where you ran it BEFORE you sent an email. Something that would maybe created the document, then you could simply click send. Otherwise your only real option is to setup an account that is different and where you have a specific signature for that account. This is available in the Accounts Identity area. Wayne
Re: Backing up :: Applescript to Quit save PowerMail
set targetApp to PowerMail tell application System Events set processExists to exists process targetApp end tell if processExists is true then tell application PowerMail ignoring application responses quit end ignoring end tell end if That should do it! Wayne
Re: Problem running AppleScript that creates email
There might be a minor syntax error in your script. I had George send it to me offline. It looks like all he needs to do is move around some tell statements. Wayne
Re: Creating PM message in another app
I'd like to create an email message in another app that can be sent out by PowerMail. Does anyone have a sample script for this? I'm using SuperCard, but a script for another app could probably be adapted. Do you just need to shell to populate the email? I wrote several like this at Apple but want to make sure I'm going to give you the right thing. Wayne -- sans la Musique la Vie serait une Erreur Without music, life would be a serious mistake. - Frederich Nietzsche
Re: Account name leak
Check your address book. If I remember correctly, this stuff is picked up via the address book and not necessarily from the headers. Wayne
Re: RMW in browser
Oh, think we can have both, don't you? Rick I tend to be more of a lurker these days due to time. But I think Matthias hit this one on the head. There are a lot of areas that need attention in PowerMail, more so than others. IMAP support has always been hit-and-miss, and while I only use it at work, it is important enough and enough things are missing from IMAP in the current PowerMail incarnation, that I can't use it at work. Instead, I have shifted to Mail for my work environment and PM for home. But CTM is a very small company and I would rather see them focus on things that are really broken first, then as they find the time, improve the things which make our email lives easier, so I'll echo Matthias sentiments and say, no you can't have both because if we have both it will take another 6 months for an update. Let's just fix the really broken things for the next update and then move to the window dressing. Wayne
Re: HTML file 'Open with...' settings
In order for PM to send an HTML message, you must attach a file named 'index.html' to a completely empty message body. Sad part is, I forgot all about this feature and then Jerome reminded me that this was my idea... ;-) Wayne
Re: Deleting VCF attachments (and only VCFs)
So, the problem is now: How do I automatically trash only certain attachments when there are multiple attachments, leaving the non .vcf files unmolested? A custom AppleScript has to be written. Wayne
Re: Problems with script for getting names of attachments.
Be VERY careful with AppleScript Text Item Delimiters option. This is a system
wide setting. If your script bails out during the running of the script, and
the TID is not set correctly, it can adversely affect other scripts.
Because I change the TID so often I alway do this:
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {} -- This is the system default
set OldTID to AppleScript's text item delimiters
try
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ,
on error
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to OldTID
end try
You should always use an on error statement inside the try statement. That way
your TID are never changed should your script bail. The setting of the TID at
the beginning is simply a safety valve for me.
Wayne
-Original Message-
From: Justin Beek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Worked like a charm.
Thanks!!
Justin
Re: Wish List Item
Sorry Mark... Life got in the way. I'll work on the script this weekend. Wayne -Original Message- From: Mark Gerber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jan 20, 2006 10:08 AM To: PowerMail discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Wish List Item On Thursday, January 19, 2006, 3:46 PM. Thus spake Wayne Brissette: I'd also like to be able to export them and perhaps import others. Some way of organizing them into groups would be very helpful, too. I'll modify one of my AppleScripts I wrote which will allow you to import or export signatures. I'll do this either tonight or tomorrow. Wayne I would look forward to that, Wayne. My list is getting way out of hand. Mark
Re: HTML printing problem
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] true, but sometimes it's a convenience to print in HTML, receipts from amazon or itineraries from expedia. And it's a bug no? I mean it's SUPPOSED to be able to print HTML, right? You're correct. It is suppose to work. I guess I hate HTML mail so much that I simply hate even having it in my mailbox, so I always use BBEdit to convert it to plain text, even receipts. But that said, I am a bit more likely to not object if people want to use HTML email. While I don't agree with it, I feel I've been fighting an uphill battle trying to stop it. Wayne
Re: mailto body text encoding?
-Original Message- From: Rene Merz [EMAIL PROTECTED] The (sometimes strange) behaviour of different mail clients (incl. PM) can be compared with this list: http://www.tandb.com.au/email/clients/ Very interesting too. The only problem with this particular site is that the versions tested were quite old, and limited to Mac OS only (and then only Mac OS 8 and earlier it looks like). I'm not sure anybody has the time to do a true comparison these days with so many different options on the various computer platforms. Wayne
Re: mailto body text encoding?
-Original Message- From: Christian Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] An 'ü' would therefore be encoded like this: ü = Unicode: 0xFC = UTF-8: 0xC3 0xBC = URL: %C3%BC (At least this is what I am doing with URLs with hi-ASCII characters in my own product.) This is getting more and more interesting... Here are the results of my quick testing: PowerMail = some odd characters Mail.app = ü Windows w/outlook: NO BODY at all Solaris w/Netscape: some odd characters So again while I think Rene is right that something isn't kosher, I don't think it's PowerMail's fault. It seems that lots of applications have this issue across multiple platforms. Some other quick tests leaving the ü character as is and not encoding. PowerMail = some odd characters Mail.app = ü Windows w/outlook: NO BODY at all Solaris w/Netscape: a totally different character than what I expected, but then again, character mappings are different between the Mac and PC and Solaris. Wayne
Re: mailto body text encoding?
And I know, how I can handle this problem: Inside FileMaker I have to resolve all the umlauts into two letters. It isn't smart, but it helps. But this is what the standard tells you to do with the mail to as well. Space should be encoded to %20, so this means that umlauts would be %dc or %fc, which I tried by the way with PowerMail... a new issue occurred which prevented mail from using this at all, PM encoded it wrong, but I also didn't specify the encoding type, which I'm not convinced I can do with a simple mailto, for this I do think I'll need to process the data and in addition to encoding the message, manually write all the headers, which means I wouldn't use any commercial mail apps anyhow, I would use PostFix. That said, depending on what you are trying to do, it sounds like you're on the right track, but based on my quick experiments here, I think there is a lot more to it and I think if you pour over several of the standards you should find the answer (part of it is already staring us right in the face -- don't use 8-bit characters. That is spelled out in the RFC, yet you seem to want to ignore it. which to me already calls into question the bug. PM does seem to handle this situation rather oddly, but then I'm told not to do what I'm doing, so is it really a bug? My experience with QA departments would tell me that while it might not behave exactly correctly, it isn't misbehaving since the standard says not to do it). Best of luck with whatever it is you're going to be doing with this, but I doubt you'll get much traction from the PM engineers on this one either. Wayne
Re: mailto body text encoding?
Well, I learned something today. It's not a FM bug, but nor is it a PowerMail bug. It's a STANDARDS issue. Check out RFC 2368, it seems that you must encode the body= part of the mailto: according to the RFC. My guess is that in the Apple Message Frameworks they are handling this for you, which is why it works in mail.app, but not PowerMail. However if you want to send a character like: Ü or ß, you have to encode it. Thus you end up with: Über = #220;ber weißt = wei#223;t Anyhow, check out the RFC: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2368.html I think you'll find it very enlightening. Wayne -Original Message- From: Rene Merz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Oct 20, 2005 12:41 PM To: PowerMail discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mailto body text encoding? No it isn't a FileMaker problem at all! It's a pure PowerMail-bug! Doing the same with Apple mail.app it works fine! Diactrictic signs are transfered as they are, no need to encode them. This is a problem with FileMaker. I remember that at Apple we had to write a bunch of custom email headers for the email in order to have FileMaker do what we needed with non US-ASCII characters. I'll dig through my old scripts and see if I can dig up anything, but I only have access to the scripts I wrote and compiled as AppleScript files. Things which I wrote and were included as part of FileMaker's custom scripts I no longer have access to and I think that's where we ended up burying that piece of code. Wayne -Original Message- From: Rene Merz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Oct 20, 2005 10:20 AM To: PowerMail discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mailto body text encoding? I abuse mailto for transfering mails from FileMaker to PowerMail and to send them therefrom. Example of the FileMaker(FM)-script: -- mailto:FM_FIELD_ADDRESS?subject= FM_FIELD_SUBJECTbody=FM_FIELD_MAILTEXT -- Works fine. Unfortunately PowerMail doesn't support from= in the mailto string (unlike other programs so as Eudora, see http://www.tandb.com.au/email/ clients/). Anyway. -- The much bigger problem is: the diacritic signs (like the german umlauts) come in a very strange form into the PowerMail mailtext. Converting such signs into ASCI or Unicode code (with preceding %-sign) couldn't help. Is there a way to encode such diacritic signs in the body of mailto in a form which PowerMail accepts?
Re: mailto body text encoding?
This is a problem with FileMaker. I remember that at Apple we had to write a bunch of custom email headers for the email in order to have FileMaker do what we needed with non US-ASCII characters. I'll dig through my old scripts and see if I can dig up anything, but I only have access to the scripts I wrote and compiled as AppleScript files. Things which I wrote and were included as part of FileMaker's custom scripts I no longer have access to and I think that's where we ended up burying that piece of code. Wayne -Original Message- From: Rene Merz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Oct 20, 2005 10:20 AM To: PowerMail discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mailto body text encoding? I abuse mailto for transfering mails from FileMaker to PowerMail and to send them therefrom. Example of the FileMaker(FM)-script: -- mailto:FM_FIELD_ADDRESS?subject= FM_FIELD_SUBJECTbody=FM_FIELD_MAILTEXT -- Works fine. Unfortunately PowerMail doesn't support from= in the mailto string (unlike other programs so as Eudora, see http://www.tandb.com.au/email/ clients/). Anyway. -- The much bigger problem is: the diacritic signs (like the german umlauts) come in a very strange form into the PowerMail mailtext. Converting such signs into ASCI or Unicode code (with preceding %-sign) couldn't help. Is there a way to encode such diacritic signs in the body of mailto in a form which PowerMail accepts?
Re: Delete duplicates
I have been working with MailSmith lately, almost made it to a total
switch, but I decided to switch back to PowerMail after all.
There is one feature which really is great, and what I think would have
to be AppleScriptable. (I think Mailsmith uses quite some AppleScripts
in its internals):
Move Duplucate Messages to Trash.
It filters on Message-Id, which is embedded in the full headers of each
mail message.
It is a great wat to clean up after imports, or messed up POP-servers.
I have just gone out and bought some AppleScripts manuals to teach
myself what is necessary to do this myself, but.
Is there anyone (Wayne perhaps) who has this script available, or some
pointers?
Here is one I wrote this AM for you...
-- Begin AppleScript
(* Delete Duplicates
Written by: Wayne Brissette
No extensive testing was done, use at your own risk
*)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {}
set TID to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set NewTID to Message-id:
set AltTID to Message-ID:
set Alt2TID to Message-Id:
(* There may be other versions of Message ID, if the script fails,
check the spelling of Message ID and put it above, then add another
test for count again. *)
set IDStorage to {}
set PMID to {}
set good_IDs to {}
tell application PowerMail
set MyMessage to current messages
repeat with i in MyMessage
set MyNewMessage to i
set TheHeaders to (headers of i) as string
(* Test for which version of Message ID is used *)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to NewTID
set X to count of text items of TheHeaders
if X is 1 then
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to AltTID
end if
set X to count of text items of TheHeaders
if X is 1 then
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to Alt2TID
end if
set TempID to text item 2 of TheHeaders
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to return
set Mess_Id to text item 1 of TempID
(* Mess_Id now contains the message ID of the email *)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to TID
-- Have to place AS TIDs back to normal
(* The meat of the script. checks to see if ID has been used
if it has, it deletes the message, it doesn't pass go, it
doesn't
collect $200 dollars... it deletes it. *)
if good_IDs contains Mess_Id then
delete i
else
set good_IDs to good_IDs Mess_Id
end if
end repeat
end tell
-- End AppleScript
---
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Re: another Applescript appeal - add sig
This will do what you want... -- Begin AppleScript tell application PowerMail set MySig to the signature of text signature Sig1 (* You'll want to replace Sig1 with the NAME of your Signature *) set MyMessages to current messages repeat with i from 1 to count of MyMessages set MyNewMessage to item i of MyMessages set mycontents to content of MyNewMessage set mynewContents to mycontents return MySig set content of MyNewMessage to mynewContents end repeat end tell -- End AppleScript Compile this script, name it something, then add that script to your outgoing filter. Wayne -Original Message- From: Tim Hodgson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Oct 6, 2005 9:37 AM To: PowerMail Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: another Applescript appeal - add sig I'm afraid this is yet another plea for help from a non-Applescripter! Is there a script available (or could anyone nudge me in the right direction towards writing one) simply to append a chosen signature? I just want to attach an 'Execute Applescript' action to a filter, so that emails to particular recipients get a particular signature. I did try adapting Wayne Brissette's 'CD to signature' script, but didn't get very far :) thanks, TimH -- PowerMail 5.2.1 | OS X 10.4.2 | PowerBook FW/500 | 640MB RAM
Re: SPAM problem needs help
I guess I really have been out of the loop for a while. I didn't realize there was an archive anywhere! Now I understand. Wayne -Original Message- From: Jeremy Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sep 27, 2005 9:02 AM To: PowerMail Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SPAM problem needs help Wayne Brissette (27/9/05 2:44 pm) said: Since the list doesn't archive things anywhere I'm not sure what you're referring to. http://pmdiscuss.ctmdev.com/ Jeremy
Re: Threading
John Hay on 9/16/05 said Apple's mail.app has a feature whereby when you select a message all the other related threads get highlighted automatically, thus showing the user some history. Does PowerMail do this and I'm just missing it? No, it doesn't. There have been discussions about this before and I believe that the result is that it isn't going to; the search function makes it not quite so necessary although I admit sometimes I would like it. But then I go try thunderbird which does have threading and keep coming back to PM... I use mail at work because we're on a MS server and the IMAP features of Mail seem to behave better in it. Anyhow, when I worked at Apple Cricket, one of the programmers for Mail, told me how they really have to guess on the threading since there isn't any internet standard to do it. They have worked out some pretty good algorithms, but I still get quite a few messages that get threaded that have nothing to do with each other. I would always vote for either NO on putting it in PowerMail, or at least make it an option. Wayne -- All human rules are more or less idiotic. - Mark Twain
Re: automating PowerMail
The idea I think is to do a reboot, thus the quit, then activate lines. However, you might want to put a delay in it. quit delay 30 activate This will delay the reboot 30 seconds. Ben, the issue with PowerMail and version seems to be unique to some builds of PowerMail. I've seen them put the version numbers in, while other times it doesn't. When you save the AppleScript and it does it's verification of the script, it will put in the version number if required. It's done automagically. ;-) Wayne -Original Message- From: Ben Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why is your copy named with the version in its title, anyhow? Mine isn't, and I'm pretty sure it came straight out of the archive like this. Also, I don't know what you have the activate in there for.
Re: automating PowerMail
Darn, you beat me to it. ;-) I will offer this up though. I have found that using a combination of cron and AppleScript tended to work better at automating tasks than just cron or AS alone. Wayne -Original Message- From: Ben Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jim Pistrang wrote at 2:29 PM (-0400) on 8/22/05: Meanwhile, can anyone tell me how to Quit out of PM, either with an applescript or with the automator? I am completely and utterly green with applescript, but here is my guess: tell application PowerMail quit end tell Does that do it? (...yup, it does, just tested in Script Editor) -b
Re: Quoting signatures
Of course there are ways round it. But since there is almost never a good reason to quote a signature, then it would make sense only to quote it if it has been deliberately selected. The problem as I see it is there are too many delimiters for signatures. The quasi-standard is double dash space return. However, that isn't always the case since there is no real RFC. The closest RFC is RFC 1855, however it is NOT a real RFC, but as they put it: This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited So what you run into is how do you determine what the signature line is? Here are some real samples pulled out of my emails ___ -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _ - And then there is always: -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Can't look for multiple dashes (I might be trying to use some ASCII art) and the -=-=-=-=-= blows that one up too... Anyhow, as I mentioned earlier, yes it would be nice to chop off the signature line, but I don't see that happening. Wayne -- Somebody's dead forever... - Somebody Got Murdered -- Joe Strummer (1952-2002)
Strange issue
I'm having a problem that started recently, and I can't seem to find a way to stop this error when PM first starts checking mail. Unexpected error on mail.earthlink.net Class - 'file', what=2, when=100, err=-43 I have found that if I do a search for something that it works correctly after the search. I have performed a low-level database rebuild, rebuilt sort indexes, yet I still get this error. Any ideas? I've updated PowerMail to the lastest version 5.2 and it still has the issue. Very odd. Thanks, Wayne -- Nature can survive without man--in fact, that may be its salvation--but man cannot survive without nature. - Homero Aridjis
Re: Can't run PowerMail
Help! Suddenly I can't start PowerMail at all!! (v5.2b3) When trying to start PowerMail absolutely nothing happens. If trying to do it when pressing down the Alt + Command buttons it's the same = nothing happens. Max: Open up the console (hidden in the Utilities folder of the Applications folder) and watch what happens when you click on the application. That information should provide you the clues you need (or CTM dev needs to help) to figure it all out. Wayne -- Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau
Re: Saving as plain text
I'm using an anti-spam app that, because it doesn't support PowerMail (yet!), requires me to save spam email messages in plain text with RFC822 headers, for processing. I've discovered something weird: PowerMail saves some HTML messages fine as plain text, while others seem to retain their HTML formatting, displaying as a blank page when opened again in PowerMail, and as HTML only when opened in a text app like TexEdit. What's going on? - and is there a fix? I'm not sure which application you're using, but the one I have supports Eudora and that's the format I use when I export my SPAM for reporting. It works very well this way and I'd recommend you try that method. Wayne -- Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau
Re: Recovering lost data - tips?
My PowerMail Files are in user/Mail/PowerMail Files not in user/ documents. Yours not? Mine are on a totally different hard drive. It's all how you set it up. Wayn -- Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Re: Recovering lost data - tips?
Hi all, Thanks for the feedback to my earlier posts; as it happens, I received my registration code pretty much as I hit send on the other mail - typical! ;-) I've been playing around with PM, tweaking it to suit my needs, etc, and while it has been fun for one day, I have a feeling that I'm going to have to switch back to Mail.app. This morning I experimented with User Environments - created a new one and without thinking, saved the folder using the default settings; i.e. folder name PowerMail Files in User/Documents. Now I can't switch back to my original UE. I have this awful feeling that in one fell swoop, I have overwritten all my data - I can't seem to find anything that looks like my original PM folder in the libraries, and I'm stumped. If this is indeed the case, then back to Mail.app I go, with £34 down the drain. :-( I really appreciate the extensive mail handling options in PM, but the lack of threaded messages, the difficulty I've experienced in working with attachments sent to my IMAP account, the lack of an up-to-date FAQ and finally, if it _is_ the case, the fact that the app merrily overwrote my user data without any warning well, let's just say I'm finding it hard to maintain the level of confidence and enthusiasm with which I started this move to PM. You might want to do a search for Address Database and see how many copies you end up with. If it's more than one, then your data is probably there, just somewhere else. I just performed your test and guess what. You get an error message stating that the folder name already exists, so you can't overwrite that folder where your data is. If you're claiming otherwise, you need to look elsewhere, because it didn't overwrite that folder. You might have a nested PowerMail folder inside a PowerMail folder, but you can't overwrite it... and an error message does appear, so you're not going to win any points with that argument from me. Wayne -- No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. - Theodore Roosevelt
Re: Still Love PowerMail but...
Hmm, it doesn't get in the way but needs more than twice the number of characters for exactly the same information (140 vs. 66) so with this message you need double bandwith for the same communication... First off, many of you long time PM users know that I am no fan of HTML mail. However that said, I have to state two things about this thread. First, it is like a religious war, there are no clear winners, only facts from both sides. In either case we've wasted a ton of bandwidth on this topic and the bottom line is, it is now getting old. Can we please drop it. And second, speaking of bandwidth. If we really want to fix the bandwidth problems, we have to fix the spammers. This is where 90+% of the wasted bandwidth comes from. SpamSieve is only part of the solution because it does nothing to stop them, it only helps unclutter your mailbox. Aggressive actions must be taken if we are to solve this problem. So far, only limited things have worked. However, this is were most of the bandwidth issues are taken place right now, not in HTML mail. Once Spam is dealt with, then we can talk about HTML wasting bandwidth. Until then, it's simply a blight. Wayne -- Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau
Re: PM support for 'threaded viewing'?
computer artwork by subhash (29/12/04 6:00 pm) said: grouping messages belonging to each other closer together? Sounds to me that makes PM *easier* to use. Not for me. I have no use for this. So it would be an unnecessary feature *for me* and only causing some bytes more to load when PM starts. But: That's only *my* case. I think threading would be a useful feature. It can be implemented unobtrusively so that people who don't want to use it can ignore it. This is PowerMail (not SimpleMail) after all... I'm with Jeremy on this one. Make it a preference and those that want it can have it, those who don't, don't have see it. I doubt a feature such as threaded viewing would cause any long delays in startup time. We all love (or love to hate) PowerMail for different things, but for me one of its strengths has always been it's flexibility. There were all sorts of private scripts I wrote at Apple with PowerMail to handle a variety of tasks that I tried doing with mail.app, but it just couldn't do. Simple things, but PM let me do it. It's this flexibility that we should all be expanding on. I see threaded viewing as simply another way PM can be flexible. Turn it on, and you have it. Turn it off, and you don't. A few settings such as these that can help set PM apart from mail.app and other email clients can only strengthen the product. For those keeping count, I'm still neutral on this feature, but I'm strongly opposed to those who want to shut the door on the best feature of PM; that is the flexibility of the product. Wayne -- Music is spiritual. The music business is not. - Van Morrison OP LoftBed Preferred Builder: http://www.wbwoodworks.com/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://www.ctmdev.com/tools/ Music Currently playing:
Re: auto reply to sender - not mailing list
PowerMail Engineering wrote on Wed 22 Dec 2004 at 11:41 +0100 You can do this with an AppleScript: Thank you Jérôme, I will try this later. One more thing, if I want to change the Subject line in the reply I send - what would the line in the AppleScript for that be? Add this inside the repeat loop. set OldSubject to subject of msg set NewSubject to NewSubject: OldSubject as string (* This combines the old and new subject lines. However, you can do as you want here *) set subject of msg to NewSubject Wayne -- Somebody's dead forever... - Somebody Got Murdered -- Joe Strummer (1952-2002) OP LoftBed Preferred Builder: http://www.wbwoodworks.com/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://www.ctmdev.com/tools/ Music Currently playing:
Re: SpamSieve whitelist/PM whitelist
Wayne Brissette wrote: How I wish. All my other filters are after the SpamSieve filters. And yes Andy it is set for incoming and always. Oh well. Maybe I'll figure it out. If the Spam: evaluate filter is the first one, with an always condition, and evaluate spam rating as single action, then it should at least launch SpamSieve, unless you have unchecked the SpamSieve checkbox from the spam filter assistant? I just made other one change of setting it to always (it was set to evaluate everything except items in my address book. I'll see if that makes a difference. Wayne -- Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau
Re: SpamSieve whitelist/PM whitelist
t sounds like one of your earlier filters is acting as a catch-all, preventing all subsequent filters from ever getting to it. Try moving How I wish. All my other filters are after the SpamSieve filters. And yes Andy it is set for incoming and always. Oh well. Maybe I'll figure it out. Wayne -- Nature can survive without man--in fact, that may be its salvation--but man cannot survive without nature. - Homero Aridjis
Re: No hard wrap of text
This RFC dates from 2001 - which is a centenary in IT-time! As it is written, it's a more conservative recommendation. But in the meantime all of (serious) mail programs are able to handle it. A mail app can do as it wants, but the mail relays will do as they please as well. This is a case of what you see is not what they will necessarily get. And while the RFC is from 2001, it is the RFC and if folks don't adhere to it, then they can't complain when their way of doing things doesn't work. I ask for this: Make for sending mails the option-choice for - to break automaticaly at 78 character OR - free flow of characters And the same option-choice for incoming mails. Again, just because the mail app supports it doesn't mean the relays won't force their own line breaks on you. Then you end up with very messy text. I know at work our MS exchange server has the ability to remove extra line breaks, and it does all the time. Unfortunately, it also looks pretty bad sometimes when it does this. I would say, you're compromise isn't a bad one, but I'll argue that you'll still end up with mail recipients that complain about your strange line breaks (not that you put them in, but the mail relays did). Wayne -- Somebody's dead forever... - Somebody Got Murdered -- Joe Strummer (1952-2002) OP LoftBed Preferred Builder: http://www.wbwoodworks.com/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://www.ctmdev.com/tools/ Music Currently playing:
Re: Quickbooks 2005
Hello, We are making a switch to Quickbooks Pro 2005 and one of the features is the ability to email a customer an invoice/statement/etc... However, when I try to do this Quickbooks reports This email application is not supported with this version of QuickBooks. Any fixes to make this work? I'd hate to stop using Powermail, but the decision to go with Quickbooks is out of my control and I need these two things to work together I have this same problem in FirstEdge. For the few email quotes that I do, I simply create a PDF first, then attach that to an email. For larger or more often used emailing quote systems however, this wouldn't be an option. I'm not sure how Intuit or MYOB decide on what email client is deemed acceptable, and other than the one workaround, I know of no way to change this behavior. Wayne --- Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. - Mark Twain OP LoftBed Preferred Builder: http://www.wbwoodworks.com/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://www.ctmdev.com/tools/ Music Currently playing:
Re: what part of PM or Spamsieve is doing this?
Wayne Brissette wrote: t seems that some type of indexing using perl is happening. I can't figure out if PM or spamsieve is doing this, but until I launch PM, I can watch the processes all day long and don't see perl in the list. Once PM starts running, perl pops up every now and again. I don't know for SpamSieve, but PowerMail does not use perl. May also be something called from an AppleScript filter? Jérôme - PowerMail Engineering Thanks Jérôme. After looking at all the processes again, it seems to be some other process using it. I have any idea, but now it's the long hard one at a time trial and error. Then I have to figure out what is spawing that process. Wayne -- sans la Musique la Vie serait une Erreur Without music, life would be a serious mistake. - Frederich Nietzsche OP LoftBed Preferred Builder: http://www.wbwoodworks.com/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://www.ctmdev.com/tools/ Music Currently playing:
what part of PM or Spamsieve is doing this?
I have noticed a very interesting thing recently. I suppose it always happened, but recently started annoying me. It seems that some type of indexing using perl is happening. I can't figure out if PM or spamsieve is doing this, but until I launch PM, I can watch the processes all day long and don't see perl in the list. Once PM starts running, perl pops up every now and again. Anybody else noticed this? Wayne -- Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau OP LoftBed Preferred Builder: http://www.wbwoodworks.com/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://www.ctmdev.com/tools/ Music Currently playing:
Re: group sends: Powermail vs. Outlook Express times
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (20/9/04 6:50 pm) said: You might even consider using PostFix if you're on Mac OS X. While very crude in terms of UI (there isn't one really), it is very powerful and well worth looking into. Also: MailMan on OS X. This is a mailing list manager (PostFix is an SMTP server). These are Unix programs which come with OS X Server. They can also be installed on client versions of OS X if you know what you're doing. I don't think you need PostFix to run MailMan. The key here is if you know what you're doing... MailMan either uses PostFix or itself to send out mail. Depends on how you have it configured. Personally I think mailman is more trouble than it's worth in this particular case. If they were running a mailing list, that would be one thing, but sending out a few hundred emails is another. The person who asked this question does have a valid point. Why does it take that long to send out that many messages when we know other tools can do it in a fraction of the time? Usually this has to do with non- optimized mailing routines. So, maybe that's where CTMDEV comes in and looks at how they can improve this Wayne -- Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau OP LoftBed Preferred Builder: http://www.wbwoodworks.com/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://www.ctmdev.com/tools/ Music Currently playing:
Re: OT: HTML vs Rich text
reject HTML mail on grounds of it being potentially harmful spam. My question, therefore, (you knew I'd get around to it eventually, right?) is this: Does Rich Text email suffer from the same fate. If I were to send out promotional email with bold headings, would there be the same chance of it being rejected at server level by the receiving company as there would be if I had sent a full-on, look-like-a-web-page HTML email? It's actually an interesting question and one more interesting since Apple Mail uses RTF for formatting rather than HTML if possible. In order to do this, email must be encoded, so the question becomes how tight does a company make their filters. If HTML is blocked, is it because the message type is HTML, or are all MIME type messages tossed into the bit bucket? I would guess your answer would be it depends on the person who setup the mail filter. Wayne -- Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte OP LoftBed Preferred Builder: http://www.wbwoodworks.com/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://www.ctmdev.com/tools/ Music Currently playing:
Re: Print Script?
Wondering what the possibilities are of having a script/filter work together. There are specific tagged (by label/priority) emails that I would love to have go directly to my printer so employees can process the information/order without the necessity for me to be there and physically send to the printer. Any insight? s http://www.keylime.com -- PM 5.0 G4 2x1.GHz, 1.75 RAM 12 PB G4 867 GHz, 640 RAM OS X.3.4 Yes and it sounds like a great script. I'll work on it later today. Wayne -- Somebody's dead forever... - Somebody Got Murdered -- Joe Strummer (1952-2002) Live DAT Music Page: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://www.ctmdev.com/tools/ Music Currently playing:
Re: more html issues
Ben Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 stated: HTML/XML mail or similar will sooner or later supersede the pure text messages of today, no matter what PM users think about it. Not without one helluva fight, it won't... (and we PM users are not exclusive with this opinion) Ben is correct. However, I do feel that the ASCII vs. HTML/XML fight will at some point be won by the make it look pretty crowd. However, I also think the ASCII/text fight will be won, not on the desktop, but where more mail is soon to be flowing that is via cell phones, PDAs, and the like. But I also agree that a wonderful idea would be to have an option to decode the HTML on the fly as it comes in, of course that would probably require a whole new text engine. In the meantime, people can use the existing AppleScript's as a band-aid. Wayne -- Nature can survive without man--in fact, that may be its salvation--but man cannot survive without nature. - Homero Aridjis Live DAT Music Page: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/powermail.html Music Currently playing: 54-40 Secret : Goodbye Flatland
Re: more html issues
Mikael Byström [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 stated: This is not useful with international umlauts. Mikael: The only way we have been able (we being my soon to be former employer) to make this work 100% of the time is by using UTF-8. Of course as Hiroaki will point out, UTF-8 is far from perfect too. Wayne -- sans la Musique la Vie serait une Erreur Without music, life would be a mistake. - Friedrich Nietzsche Live DAT Music Page: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/powermail.html Music Currently playing: 54-40 Secret : Goodbye Flatland
Re: IMPORTANT NEWS: New Archive
. (I assume you remain a PM user though, so I won't say goodbye;-) Yes, you're not getting rid of me that easily. ;-) Mainly at this point I want some time off, to do the things that matter most to me at the moment... spend some quality time with my wife and daughter, spend a couple of weeks working on a habitat for humanity build here in town, and just take a break from the high tech industry for a while. Wayne -- All human rules are more or less idiotic. - Mark Twain Live DAT Music Page: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://www.ctmdev.com/tools/ Music Currently playing:
Re: spam filters: detect same words apprearing twice?
One another question is that does AppleScript take Regex? It doesn't. Regular expressions (Regex) are only useful with languages or applications like BBedit which included them. One way to use regular expressions within AppleScript is to use the command line and something like awk or sed which are UNIX tools built into the OS. The best book for an introduction into regular expressions (in my opinion) is the Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes by Ben Forta. If you want more than an introduction there is no other source than: Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey, E. F. Friedl I am not AppleScript guy either, tho, but a couple books I skimmed through on AppleScript didn't mention it. Because it doesn't use regular expressions. Wayne -- Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau Live DAT Music Page: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://www.ctmdev.com/tools/ Music Currently playing:
Re: [ANN] PowerMail 5.0.1 released
But then, no other user is able to use them or I'm I wrong? That was my point to put them where they are. I haven't tried this, but you might be able to make aliases for each item. Leave the master copy in your folder, then you wouldn't have to worry about them again when you upgraded PowerMail versions. Have you tried making an alias? (I'm not sure if this works, since usually others don't have access to files in another user's account, but you might be able to do this). Wayne -- I could tell you a million stories, I could cost you your beliefs. But, I've never stolen from a honest man, 'cause I'm the prince of thieves. -- Prince of Theives: Walking Wounded Live DAT Music Page: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://www.ctmdev.com/tools/ Music Currently playing:
Re: IMPORTANT NEWS: New Archive
Sounds a little bit sadly, doesn't it? Yes and no. I'm sad only because I've had the pleasure of working with a fine group of people for close to 10 years. However, leaving the company is another story. Everything changes and while I disagree with the reasons for this particular change, it's time for me to change. I'm really not sad about leaving. I already have multiple opportunities that have presented themselves to me, I just have to work out the timing part of it. I want some time off and nobody seems willing to wait 3 or 4 weeks while I take some time for myself and family. Anyhow, I'm glad the AppleScript archives have moved to CTM Dev. where I thought they really belonged for a long time. Wayne -- Somebody's dead forever... - Somebody Got Murdered -- Joe Strummer (1952-2002) Live DAT Music Page: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://www.ctmdev.com/tools/ Music Currently playing:
IMPORTANT NEWS: New New Archive
Some of you probably have already noticed this, but in the latest version of the AppleScript menu in PowerMail there is now an item that allows you to Go to the AppleScript Archive page. Some people on this already also know that I currently work for Apple Computer. My position at Apple is moving back to the mothership in Cupertino, California. Not wanting to move, I will leaving Apple shortly. Unfortunately one of the problems associated with that is my mac.com account. Everything is run off of my apple.id (the thing assigned to you if you have a mac.com account, ever used the Apple Discussion site, or purchased anything from the Apple online store). Since my apple.id will be going away, so will my mac.com account. CTM Dev has taken every script I had available on the AppleScript page and brought it over to their site. Many thanks to them for hosting this. I never intended to host it for this long, it just sort of happened. For those of you who haven't looked at the site, take a look there are some excellent scripts available. There are a great many that can be modified to suit new needs. Later today I will be removing my scripting page and putting up a link to the CTM page. That page will stay up there as long as my mac.com account is active. Once it goes away, you will get the 404 error that mac.com puts up. Wayne -- sans la Musique la Vie serait une Erreur Without music, life would be a serious mistake. - Frederich Nietzsche Live DAT Music Page: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://www.ctmdev.com/tools/ Music Currently playing: Uncut In This Morning Grey : Those Who Were Hung Hang Here
Re: new to powermail
Anything I can do to reduce their chances? James OS X.2.8 Powerbook G3 For starters, if possible, upgrade to Panther. There were so many fixes and enhancements in Panther it's not funny. I run Panther on a G3 PowerBook and while it isn't going to break any world records, it is beefy enough to run 10.3 and works just fine. I also don't have any problems with PowerMail on this system. Wayne -- sans la Musique la Vie serait une Erreur Without music, life would be a serious mistake. - Frederich Nietzsche Live DAT Music Page: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/powermail.html Music Currently playing:
Re: Boolean Filters
On 21/06/2004 at 12:11 PM I saw PowerMail Engineering type: Christian Roth wrote: it would be a TREMENDOUS feature if the options within a filter could be individually grouped in a boolean fashion And for a IMO nice graphical interface solution to complex boolean expressions, see ChronoSync's Rules tab, Intermediate mode: Using both AND and OR operators in a filter would be way to difficult to configure for most users. A lot of users already have difficulties to order their filters and use the stop checkbox correctly, so a complex interface like this one just out of question. Perhaps a preference [off by default] that would allow for 'advanced' filtering? Just a thought. Kename I've stayed out of this thread, but I will toss this in. I work for a company that has thousands of people coming to it's support site. I have been actively involved in the knowledge management end of things for over 4 years. Our surveys and data continue to show that a majority of people (over 96 percent) use one or two words when searching for information. One of the more frustrating things for people like myself is how do you design for this. Yes, adding boolean operators is great for 3-4% off the users, but that doesn't address the majority of users. We added an advanced search for boolean searches. You know what we got? 96% of the people using one or two words! People used it because it was advanced. Ultimately we gained nothing from it. We could add regular expressions, but then less than 1% of the people would get those, so we would end up putting in a lot of work for very few people. While those small groups of people appreciate it, it just doesn't make good business sense to do so. Wayne -- sans la Musique la Vie serait une Erreur Without music, life would be a serious mistake. - Frederich Nietzsche Live DAT Music Page: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/powermail.html Music Currently playing:
Re: Scrunched Subjects
Tom Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thursday, June 17, 2004 stated: I sometimes get subjects scrunched together on my QS DP 800 with the latest versions on OS X and PM. I also see this sometimes when I'm adding more addresses to a message. It usually doesn't cause a problem. You can see what I mean at http://homepage.mac.com/tlmiller/PowerMailScreen.jpg Anyone else run into this? Tom Miller There is a return in the subject line. I can force this on my own computer using an AppleScript that puts in a return, but the problem is not with you, but the sender. Wayne -- Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau Live DAT Music Page: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/powermail.html Music Currently playing: Mountain Heart Snapsjots And Souvenirs : Force Of Nature
Re: Sender's local time
Max Gossell [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 17 May 2004 stated: Is there a way to add the sender's local time to the Simple Header? If not, it would be nice to have it put on the to-do list. Max: You can add this via an AppleScript for now. Not the best solution in the world, but it does work and if you don't like to show the long headers, this might be an option for you. -- Begin AppleScript (* Add Time Message was sent by the user to the top of a message It's important to note that if you get Time Sent of a message via AppleScript, it is converted to YOUR local time. Thus it's more important to grab the message's header and get the time sent that is placed in the header. *) set TID to AppleScript's text item delimiters set NewTID to Date: try tell application PowerMail 5.0b18 set MyMessage to current messages repeat with i in MyMessage set TheTime to (time sent of i) set TheHeaders to (headers of i) set theContents to (content of i) -- Break up header set AppleScript's text item delimiters to NewTID set TempTime to text item 2 of TheHeaders set AppleScript's text item delimiters to return set Users_Time to text item 1 of TempTime set AppleScript's text item delimiters to TID -- Make new contents set MyContents to User's Local Time When Message was sent: Users_Time return ¬ My Time when Message was Sent: TheTime return return ¬ theContents set content of i to MyContents end repeat end tell on error set AppleScript's text item delimiters to TID end try -- End AppleScript Hope this helps. Wayne -- sans la Musique la Vie serait une Erreur Without music, life would be a mistake. - Friedrich Nietzsche Live DAT Music Page: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/powermail.html Music Currently playing: The Watchmen Must to be Free : 2003-12-16 The Palace, Calgary AB
Re: Message toolbar missing
Tue, May 4, 2004 10:39 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bob Salsburg said: In b18, the message toolbar is not present unless I toggle it. Can someone point me to a Pref for this. This now works fine for me in b26. Thanks!! Yes, I concur it works again for me as well. Wayne --- Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. - Mark Twain Live DAT Music Page: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/powermail.html Music Currently playing:
Re: Threads
There was another one for OS X only I used, can't remember the name of right now; had a dancing girl icon. Don't know if it is still available. It was Halime which is no longer being developed although the source code has been made available. One other one is Hogwasher. It's primarily a newsreader, but it also can do mail (although that is NOT it's strength). Wayne --- Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. - Mark Twain Live DAT Music Page: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/powermail.html Music Currently playing:
Re: Threads
Jean de Crombrugghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10 May 2004 stated: Is it possible to have threads on PowerMail ? I don't find that ... It's not currently part of Powermail. However it has been requested by several people. Wayne -- Nature can survive without man--in fact, that may be its salvation--but man cannot survive without nature. - Homero Aridjis Live DAT Music Page: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/powermail.html Music Currently playing: Blondie Detroit 442 : The Platinum Collection
Re: To: / From: Header
Ben Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05 May 2004 stated: On 05 5 2004 at 10:10 am -0400, Lane Roathe wrote: that being adding an option to turn off double-clicking of URL's to launch them... this one is critical to me). I have to agree, this behaviour has always been a right pain in the ass. -ben What would you rather it do?? Wayne -- The shining spark of truth cometh forth only after the clash of differing opinions. - Abdul-Baha Live DAT Music Page: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/powermail.html Music Currently playing: Andy Leftwich Shark Tooth : Ride
Re: PowerMail 5.0 License?
Robert Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 03 May 2004 stated: I am sure this has been answered on this list, but I missed it. I have a valid PowerMail 4.x license and would like to try PowerMail 5.0 beta, but my mail folder far exceeds the demo's limits. Earlier today I went to the PowerMail site and purchaed the $29 upgrade to 5.0 from 4.x, but have gotten no reply other than that my card will not be billed until the full 5.0 version is released. Is that when I will get my 5.0 key? Also, I already have a SpamSieve license. I like that PM now includes SpamSeive, but I don't like that I now have to purchase it a second time. Any advice? A 5.0 license that expires at the end of May was included in the disc image. Just drag that license onto the PM icon (both must reside on your hard drive prior to doing this). That will give you a functioning version of PM until the end of May. Wayne -- Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau Live DAT Music Page: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/powermail.html Music Currently playing: Tim O'Brien Family History : Traveler
Re: Solution (was: echo please)
Marlyse Comte [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 29 April 2004 stated: thanks! Andy Fragen helped me modify my original script which ended in a working solution. Looking now on the solution you came up with, I think it interesting to see how different AS approaches can be! It's programming in general. As one of my co-workers is fond of saying I wouldn't have done it like that, but... cheshirekat: You need to make one change in your code. Add 31 to your list of days. Otherwise you'll never be able to add events to the 31st of any month that has 31 days. Wayne -- No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. - Theodore Roosevelt Live DAT Music Page: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/powermail.html Music Currently playing:
Re: Folder Is... filter condition
Rick Lecoat [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 4/27/04 at 17:12 stated: Yes, I could use Cron to send a message that would activate an applescript via a filter to delete the appropriate messages, but that seems a VERY long way around the houses -- especially to someone who has zero knowledge of Cron or Applescript -- to accomplish something that I'd hoped to be able to do using PM's own functionality. Rick Yes, Rick it's a kluge in the grand sense. But, AppleScript does have the ability to globally store values that remain persistent, so it's possible (not easy if you don't know AppleScript, but still possible) to have a date stored compare the dates and if it's greater than X number of days remove the appropriate messages. However, you're absolutely correct it's not the easiest or best way to do it, it's simply one way to accomplish the goal. If you are so inclined, you may want to look at the AS archives. There is a Delete Aged Messages script that should do what you want. BTW, today I learned why I have never before attempted to write an AppleScript for Microsoft Word (other than I don't use it much). I was asked to see about grabbing a certain part of text from a series of documents. Looking at their dictionary I couldn't see how the footer and header were assigned to the document. So a quick search through the Internet found several examples, turns out you must use Visual Basic calls within AppleScript. Now, that's the long way around the house! Wayne -- All human rules are more or less idiotic. - Mark Twain Live DAT Music Page: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/powermail.html Music Currently playing:
Re: Folder Is... filter condition
Derry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 27 April 2004 stated: Bugger is right. It'd be nice to have something like run this filer once a day at 5.00pm or something similar So here is a workaround: 1) setup a cron job that would create a mail that would fire off the filter. You get to setup the cron job to run any time you want; Once a day, Once an hour, Once a week. You pick the time, date, etc. Wayne -- Only sick music makes money today. - Friedrich Nietzsche Live DAT Music Page: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/powermail.html Music Currently playing:
Re: Etiquette
harryo [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 22 April 2004 stated: Excuse me is this now a french mailing list? It's only English by default. Since PowerMail is used worldwide I would hope we would show a bit more tolerance when these posts occasionally appear. Wayne -- No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. - Theodore Roosevelt Live DAT Music Page: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/powermail.html Music Currently playing: Ricky Skaggs Connemara : Ancient Tones
Re: Which SpamSieve?
Max Gossell [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 4/22/04 at 6:58 stated: Spam blockers are unnecessary. Is this really the TRUTH? Using his method, it's not that they are unnecessary, he just doesn't call them that. He is the spam blocker in his case. EarthLink has been very good with SPAM recently, so I don't get nearly as much as I use to. When I do log in via the web to look at mail, I always peek in the SPAM folder and I'm amazed at how much stuff is in there. SPAMSieve takes care of what slips through. Wayne -- sans la Musique la Vie serait une Erreur Without music, life would be a serious mistake. - Frederich Nietzsche Live DAT Music Page: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/powermail.html Music Currently playing:
Re: Trying PM 5
John Snippe [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 19 April 2004 stated: Will conversion of db's affect possible future post-beta use in 4.2? What do you mean? Can you go back to 4.2 after 5 upgrades the database? Wayne -- Music is spiritual. The music business is not. - Van Morrison Live DAT Music Page: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/powermail.html Music Currently playing:
Re: Transporter Malfunctions
A-NO-NE Music [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12 April 2004 stated: I don't know what the .b64 mail is. Base64 MIME encoding? Yes. If you have a tool that will decode base64 files, you could use it to decode that particular file. One such tool I used for years was UUencode. There are a bunch of others now, I think StuffIt Expander will also decode these types of files for you. However, it sounds like the file was already decoded, it simply kept two (or in this case 3) copies of the file; the encoded version and the decoded version. Wayne -- We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once... - Friedrich Nietzsche Live DAT Music Page: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/powermail.html Music Currently playing:
New AppleScript on PM AppleScript Archives
New File Available: Name: Copy e-mail (headers at top) Author: Alan Harper Description: The following script copies a PowerMail email to the clipboard with headers at the top in a format that Spamcop can parse (see http:// www.spamcop.net/). I believe that the clipboard reflects the canonical format for an email, which may be useful for other purposes as well. The text of the script is as follows: property parent : load script alias (((path to scripting additions from local domain) as text) Macscript.com Library) tell application PowerMail set theMessages to current messages if (count of theMessages) 1 then error -128 end if set theMessage to item 1 of theMessages set theSource to source of theMessage end tell SetClipboard(theSource) However, this textual representation can only be compiled by licensed owners of the MacScript.com library. -=-=-=-=-=-= My Note: While this was in the document sent to me, I had no problems compiling this script. Not sure what the story is here, but it worked, so I'm not complaining. Wayne -- I could tell you a million stories, I could cost you your beliefs. But, I've never stolen from a honest man, 'cause I'm the prince of thieves. -- Prince of Theives: Walking Wounded Live DAT Music Page: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/powermail.html Music Currently playing:
Re: Wishlist : auto trashed messages deletion
Stephane Terreaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 stated: It would be great if the messages in the trash would disappear by themselves after a delay setup in the preferences. For example, I may decide the messages to stay in the trash for 1 week or 1 month or whatever. That is on the list for 5. Wayne -- Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein Live DAT Music Page: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/powermail.html Music Currently playing:
Re: Returns in mailbody per AppleScript
computer artwork by subhash [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday, March 30, 2004
stated:
[Wayne Brissette [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 30.3.2004 um 14:44 Uhr:]
In AppleScript you can simply use RETURN.
Ah, sure, I forgot!
2) How to set the account from which being sent?
Tell application PowerMail
set msg to make new message with properties {account:Earthlink,
subject:Mail_Subj, recipient:Mail_Recips, content:Mail_Message,
Signature:Aridjis}
send msg
end tell
That's not possible in my case because I have to create the mail per
open URL mailto: otherwise FileMaker cannot talk to PM. I cannot
use the AppleScript from FM to create a new message because I have to
insert some variables from FM ...
What I suspect you need to look at is global variables. These can be used
between applications.
See the documentation here:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/
AppleScriptLangGuide/AppleScript.ed.html
Wayne
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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between
stealing an office and stealing a purse.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Live DAT Music Page: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/
Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music
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Re: [Wishlist] Forward to...
Jim Pistrang [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 stated: Yes this is a preference. Check out General: Shortcuts: Select next message after moving to trash. Goes to show that even old dogs can learn new tricks! ;-) Wayne -- Music is spiritual. The music business is not. - Van Morrison Live DAT Music Page: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/powermail.html Music Currently playing:
Re: [Wishlist] Forward to...
Bob Salsburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 stated: Now, I am new to PowerMail and haven't gotten all the nuiances yet, so if this is a user pref, let me know. It's not. it is just how PowerMail works. I have no real suggestions on how to fix this either. Wayne -- Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte Live DAT Music Page: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/ Wayne's Music Calendar: http://ical.mac.com/wayneb/Music PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/powermail.html Music Currently playing:
