Automating "Get entire message"

F

Fraser

Any way to automatically "get entire message" with a rule or script? I don't
like to download large attachments that aren't from senders in my address
book.
 
M

Mickey Stevens

Launch Script Editor (/Applications/Script Editor/) and paste this in:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
download (get current messages)
end tell

Save the script to /Users/<Your User>/Documents/Microsoft User
Data/Entourage Script Menu Items/ (or /Documents/Microsoft User
Data/Entourage Script Menu Items/ if you use Entourage 2001). Save it as
"Get Entire Message".

Launch Entourage, go to Tools > Rules, and create a rule like this:
* Execute if any criteria are met
IF From Is in Address Book
THEN Run AppleScript Get Entire Message (you need to select it)

Check the "Enabled" box and click OK.

Now, if messages are from senders in your address book, the entire message
will be downloaded.

In answering your question, I discovered something new myself. The
definition for the AppleScript "Download" command is "Download an IMAP,
Hotmail, or News message that's on the server". However, some testing I did
reveals that this also works for POP messages. Interesting.
 
P

Paul Berkowitz

Launch Script Editor (/Applications/Script Editor/) and paste this in:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
download (get current messages)
end tell

Save the script to /Users/<Your User>/Documents/Microsoft User
Data/Entourage Script Menu Items/ (or /Documents/Microsoft User
Data/Entourage Script Menu Items/ if you use Entourage 2001)
Click to expand...

The second (parenthetical) location only if you're using Entourage 2001
_in OS 9 or 8_ (or 10.1). If you're using 2001 in Classic in Jaguar or
. Save it as
"Get Entire Message".

Launch Entourage, go to Tools > Rules, and create a rule like this:
* Execute if any criteria are met
IF From Is in Address Book
THEN Run AppleScript Get Entire Message (you need to select it)

Check the "Enabled" box and click OK.

Now, if messages are from senders in your address book, the entire message
will be downloaded.

In answering your question, I discovered something new myself. The
definition for the AppleScript "Download" command is "Download an IMAP,
Hotmail, or News message that's on the server". However, some testing I did
reveals that this also works for POP messages. Interesting.
Click to expand...

It doesn't work here, though it doesn't error either:

1) Enable "Allow online access" for a POP account.
2) Go into Tools/Schedules/Send & Receive All, and disable it.
3) Click on the online Server icon to see POP messages on the server. (Wait
until you have ozone or more if necessary.)
4) Select one or more online messages on the server.
5) Run the script.

Nothing happens. If you just 'get current messages', you'll see that
Entourage can in fact find the message - it just doesn't download it.

It may be that if you have partially downloaded messages and select the
local copy, then download, that will work. Is that what you tried? Still,
since the command doesn't work for messages on POP servers, that must be why
the dictionary doesn't refer to POP messages.


--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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M

Mickey Stevens

It doesn't work here, though it doesn't error either:

1) Enable "Allow online access" for a POP account.
2) Go into Tools/Schedules/Send & Receive All, and disable it.
3) Click on the online Server icon to see POP messages on the server. (Wait
until you have ozone or more if necessary.)
4) Select one or more online messages on the server.
5) Run the script.

Nothing happens. If you just 'get current messages', you'll see that
Entourage can in fact find the message - it just doesn't download it.

It may be that if you have partially downloaded messages and select the
local copy, then download, that will work. Is that what you tried?
Click to expand...

Yes. I assumed that Fraser was partially downloading messages by default,
since he referred to large attachments. I didn't think of the online access
case, which is why I didn't test that.
Still,
since the command doesn't work for messages on POP servers, that must be why
the dictionary doesn't refer to POP messages.
Click to expand...

OK. I suppose that makes sense.
 
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