Notifications

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Charles Victor Ganelin

Through Mailing List Manager I have messages sent directly to specific
mailboxes, but I receive no notification of message arrivals except for
those coming directly into my Inbox. As a number of mailboxes are nested, I
need to check manually. Is there a way to have a mailbox open automatically
when a message reaches it?

Thanks.
 
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Barry Wainwright [MVP]

Through Mailing List Manager I have messages sent directly to specific
mailboxes, but I receive no notification of message arrivals except for those
coming directly into my Inbox. As a number of mailboxes are nested, I need to
check manually. Is there a way to have a mailbox open automatically when a
message reaches it?

Thanks.
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Firstly, the generic notifications only fire if Entourage is not the
frontmost application. You could set a mail rule to fire a notification at
other times though. If you are using the Mailing List Manager you will have
to make sure the option to allow rules to act on list messages is set in the
MLM entry.

To have the mail folder open automatically, you will need to set a rule to
run an AppleScript (again, make sure the Œallow rules¹ option is set in the
MLM)

Here¹s a script to open a window onto the folder enclosing a selected
message ­ this will work on the filtered message when fired from a mail
rule. Note that a folder window is a little different to the standard
browser window, but doesn¹t need as much space. If you want a second browser
window to open instead, write back and I¹ll modify the script.


-- Open Enclosing Folder v1.0 (3rd August 2007)
-- an applescript by Barry Wainwright <mailto:[email protected]>
-- This script released under a Creative Commons Attribution, NonCommercial,
ShareAlike 2.0 England & Wales License.
-- see <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/> for full details

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
try
set theMessage to item 1 of (get current messages)
on error
display dialog "No messages selected!" buttons {"Abort"} default
button 1 giving up after 10
return
end try
try
open (get storage of theMessage)
on error
-- draft message? fail silently...
end try
end tell
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Copy the script into a new window in Apple¹s ³Script Editor² application.
Save the script as a compiled script & put it in the ŒEntourage Script Menu
Items¹ folder in your ŒMicrosoft User Data¹ folder. The script can be
manually run from the menu or called as an action in a mail rule.
 
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Diane Ross

Through Mailing List Manager I have messages sent directly to specific
mailboxes, but I receive no notification of message arrivals except for those
coming directly into my Inbox. As a number of mailboxes are nested, I need to
check manually. Is there a way to have a mailbox open automatically when a
message reaches it?
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Another option you might want to consider is to use sounds to notify you for
specific mail. For example, you get mail from someone at work, a sound
alerts you or a voice saying "Work mail".

I have a variety of sound alerts. Some are system sounds like quack, sosumi
etc and others that say "friends", "buddy". You can even create your own
sounds or use computer voices to announce your mail. For example, you could
have the AppleScript say ³Mail from Dad².

Directions can be found here on how to use sounds to alert you. Examples and
sounds are there for download.

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/rules/sounds.html>

Enjoy!
 
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Charles Victor Ganelin

Barry and Diane--Thank you both for the suggestions. I'll give them a try
soon.
 
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