On 6/30/06 3:40 PM John Delacour [log in to unmask] said: > Mail used to have its own Scripts menu > but they removed it when they realised that nobody had yet managed to > write a useful script for Mail. Well I can't say the script I'm writing is useful because I was trying to work around another shortcoming in Mail in that you can't create rules to work on sent mail. You can do that with Entourage, maybe others. This law firm wants a copy of all email sent by their attorneys to be forwarded to a secretary who will print it and put a copy in the file. They used to use Entourage until they put in a mail server and had troubles with it. Then they switched to Mail. They are beginning to rue the day they made that switch. Anyway, I created a script that basically made a new email and formatted it to look like a forwarded email it and then flagged the message so that it doesn't get sent again. So you're probably thinking if I'm creating and sending a new message rather than forwarding an existing message doesn't that create a new sent message in the sent folder with basically the same content? Well the answer in Mail is maybe and sometimes but I don't know why. Oddly, when creating and sending an email with the AppleScript I developed you might not see these messages show up in the sent folder. However, since these scripts are run once a day first thing in the morning any new sent mail appears unflagged at the top of the Sent folder and can be easily deleted by hand. Did I mention I couldn't get the "delete" command to work on these new sent messages? Well that's hard to work on when they don't always show up anyway. The script I created seemed to be working fine until it ran into an email with an attachment. I would just like to have a reference to the attachment in the existing email and so that I can attach it the new email. I just don't see how the hell you can do that with this product. However with Mail it's never just one problem to solve. Rather, any attempt at scripting Mail seems to devolve into a complete and total morass of negativity. In this case the script, when attempting to get the content of any email that has an attachment also, for reasons I don't understand, truncates that content seemingly at random points. There may be workarounds to these issues that someone may be aware of and/or I might not be working with the scripting of Mail correctly. However, it's easier to move on to another product rather than face the uncertainty of this product and there's no doubt that this is an unfinished product. No reason to use it. -Duane Mitchell