Script for BCC-ing each message to yourself

[John Cradock]

I have a user who wants to BCC a copy of each message to himself, as you can
do with the option in Mail. On this web page...

http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/cc_bcc_fw.html

....there's this script...

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
make new draft window with properties {recipient:{recipient type:
cc recipient, address:get address of me contact, display name:
get display name of me contact}}
end tell

....which should let you CC to yourself, but when I try to create the script
with Scipt Editor, I get an error that says "Syntax Error. Expected
expression but found end of line."

What am I doing wrong? Any help on this is appreciated.

 

[Ed Kimball]

I have a user who wants to BCC a copy of each message to himself, as you can
do with the option in Mail. On this web page...

http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/cc_bcc_fw.html

...there's this script...


tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
make new draft window with properties {recipient:{recipient type:
cc recipient, address:get address of me contact, display name:
get display name of me contact}}
end tell

...which should let you CC to yourself, but when I try to create the script

with Scipt Editor, I get an error that says "Syntax Error. Expected
expression but found end of line."

What am I doing wrong? Any help on this is appreciated.

The problem is that the command is too long to fit on one line. Use the
continuation symbol ¬ (option-l) at the end of the lines inside the double
{} as follows:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
make new draft window with properties {recipient:{recipient type: ¬
cc recipient, address:get address of me contact, display name: ¬
get display name of me contact}}
end tell

Hope this helps.

 

[John Cradock]

The problem is that the command is too long to fit on one line. Use the
continuation symbol ¬ (option-l) at the end of the lines inside the double
{} as follows:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
make new draft window with properties {recipient:{recipient type: ¬
cc recipient, address:get address of me contact, display name: ¬
get display name of me contact}}
end tell

Hope this helps.

Thanks. I'll give this a try.

 

[John Cradock]

Thanks. I'll give this a try.

That solved it. Thanks. Is there a way to create a script that will do this
same "BCC to myself" function for replies and forwards as well?

 

[Tim Murray]

I have a user who wants to BCC a copy of each message to himself,

I'm really curious as to why. Why not just keep the outbox or sent group
intact?

 

[John Cradock]

I'm really curious as to why. Why not just keep the outbox or sent group
intact?

I'm not exactly sure why, but I'd like to give him the capability. I've got
a script for creating a new message with the sender in the BCC field. What
I'd like to do now is create a script that will do this with replies and
forwards. Do you know of a way to do this?