Comments on: Farewell, Old Friend http://byrneweb.com/sunburn/blog/2008/02/06/farewell-old-friend/ Random rantings of SunByrne Sun, 26 Feb 2012 04:08:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: SunByrne http://byrneweb.com/sunburn/blog/2008/02/06/farewell-old-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-195 SunByrne Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:38:51 +0000 http://byrneweb.com/sunburn/blog/2008/02/06/farewell-old-friend/#comment-195 Thanks for the tip about access via the drafts mailbox property, that's helpful! Unfortunately, Mail won't let you do a "set" of the contents via AppleScript. Grr. I've heard good things about Mail Tags as well. When the Leopard version is out of beta, I'll give it a try... Thanks for the tip about access via the drafts mailbox property, that’s helpful! Unfortunately, Mail won’t let you do a “set” of the contents via AppleScript. Grr.

I’ve heard good things about Mail Tags as well. When the Leopard version is out of beta, I’ll give it a try…

]]> By: bewebste http://byrneweb.com/sunburn/blog/2008/02/06/farewell-old-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-194 bewebste Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:28:59 +0000 http://byrneweb.com/sunburn/blog/2008/02/06/farewell-old-friend/#comment-194 My condolences on the passing of a longtime friend. ;-) I've used Mail from the get-go on OS X, and it's definitely matured a lot since version 1.0. It's still got its quirks, no doubt, but I find it to be quite sufficient for my own purposes. You can actually access messages that are being composed via the "drafts mailbox" property on the application object in Applescript. Perhaps not the most obvious way to go about it, but it does the job. The "content" property of the message can be used to get/set the text of the message. The window thing is a no-go though, that is pretty dumb. You also might want to check out MailTags, which is a Mail add-on that lets you tag and color your messages. I haven't used it much myself, but it appears to even have Applescript support, and I've heard lots of good things about it. http://www.indev.ca/MailTags.html My condolences on the passing of a longtime friend. ;-) I’ve used Mail from the get-go on OS X, and it’s definitely matured a lot since version 1.0. It’s still got its quirks, no doubt, but I find it to be quite sufficient for my own purposes.

You can actually access messages that are being composed via the “drafts mailbox” property on the application object in Applescript. Perhaps not the most obvious way to go about it, but it does the job. The “content” property of the message can be used to get/set the text of the message. The window thing is a no-go though, that is pretty dumb.

You also might want to check out MailTags, which is a Mail add-on that lets you tag and color your messages. I haven’t used it much myself, but it appears to even have Applescript support, and I’ve heard lots of good things about it.

http://www.indev.ca/MailTags.html

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