Entourage 2004 Newsreading Problem

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Slappy Horowitz

Every time I click on a subscribed newsgroup, everything starts fine -- the
articles start to fill the window and the progress bar shows the retrieval
of articles. However, a window then pops up and says:

Microsoft Entourage got an error: the message is online and this
operation is not yet supported.

It looks like an AppleScript dialog box, but I'm not 100% sure about that. I
get one window for each downloaded article. The strange thing is that the
articles arrive okay and after the dialogs are dismissed, everything is
again fine. I can read, reply, save, etc., but I always get those dialogs.

This is the Student & Teacher Edition of Office 2004, if that makes a
difference. I tried quitting, deleting the Microsoft User Data folder, and
starting over, and while that seemed to help for a while the strange
behavior returned. Perhaps I changed some setting which causes this, but I
can't for the life of me figure out which one.

Any ideas, anyone? Thanks in advance,

Slappy
 
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Barry Wainwright

Check the rules dialog, under the 'news' tab to see if there is any rules
running which are trying to do something not allowed.
 
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Slappy Horowitz

Check the rules dialog, under the 'news' tab to see if there is any rules
running which are trying to do something not allowed.
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Barry, you are "the man." I forgot that I had created a news rule to apply
an AppleScript to strip HTML from all incoming news articles. This same
AppleScript works well as a rule on mail messages, but I had only recently
tried to use it as a rule on news articles. The script still works fine on
news articles when selected from Entourage's AppleScript menu -- just not as
part of a rule.

So for the few news articles that come in with formatting or HTML (happens
more in this particular newsgroup), I can just continue to go to the
AppleScript menu. But is there any other way to plain-text formatted news
articles without any interaction from me?

Thanks,
Slappy
 
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Paul Berkowitz

Barry, you are "the man." I forgot that I had created a news rule to apply
an AppleScript to strip HTML from all incoming news articles. This same
AppleScript works well as a rule on mail messages, but I had only recently
tried to use it as a rule on news articles. The script still works fine on
news articles when selected from Entourage's AppleScript menu -- just not as
part of a rule.

So for the few news articles that come in with formatting or HTML (happens
more in this particular newsgroup), I can just continue to go to the
AppleScript menu. But is there any other way to plain-text formatted news
articles without any interaction from me?
Click to expand...

You could ask the script's author - is that Allen Watson? It's probably just
a matter of adjusting a condition looking for a particular class of message.

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

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ignored.

PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - **2004**, X
or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise.
 
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Barry Wainwright

You could ask the script's author - is that Allen Watson? It's probably just
a matter of adjusting a condition looking for a particular class of message.
Click to expand...

It won't work - he's trying to edit a news message. Can't be done.
 
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