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Mail Scripts - 2.9.1

Workflow-enhancing AppleScripts for Mail & Address Book.

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All Time:	(4.2)
This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	2.9.1
Release Date:	2009-06-28
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	681
Downloads (all versions):	134,728

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Product Description:

Mail Scripts is a collection of AppleScript Studio applications for Mail and Address Book offering additional features or simplified workflow. Mail Scripts consists of the following scripts:

Add Addresses (Mail): Add addresses found in the selected messages (in the header fields "From", "To", "Cc", and "Bcc") to the Address Book. This is much more flexible than the "Add Sender to Address Book" available in Mail and provides a convenient way for creating mailing lists.
Archive Messages (Mail): Move messages from the selected mailbox(es) to an archive mailbox or export them to standard mbox or plain text files for backup purposes or import into other applications. You can select to move all messages or only messages sent within or certain period as well filter messages based on their read and flagged status.
Change SMTP Server (Mail): Switch between different already defined SMTP servers or define a new one. This is especially useful if you are using your computer in more than one location and have to switch servers for several accounts at once.
Create Rule (Mail): Create a new rule based on the first of the selected messages. This saves you the trouble of copy/pasting address or other info between the message and the rule window and provides a much quicker way for setting up a rule with multiple criteria/actions.
Remove Duplicates (Mail): Locate all duplicate messages found in the selected mailbox(es) and move them to a separate mailbox for easy removal (duplicate matching is based on the unique message header "Message-Id").
Schedule Delivery (Mail): Allows you to send individual messages at predefined times (this script uses iCal for scheduling message delivery).
Send all Drafts (Mail): Immediately send all messages in the "Drafts" folders for all accounts. This saves you from having to open each draft in order to send it.
Open Mailbox, Open Message (Mail): Two small faceless scripts which will open mailboxes with new messages or the new messages themselves when run as a rule action.
Filter Sent Messages (Mail): Another faceless scripts which will apply your rules to the messages in the "Sent" mailbox.
Export Addresses (Address Book): Export addresses from the Address Book into tab-delimited text files. You can select which groups and which fields you want to export.
Search Addresses (Address Book): Find all addresses inside the Address Book matching one or more criteria. As opposed to the "Search" function built into the Address Book, this lets you search in any field as well as for empty and non-empty fields. As an example, you might use this script to search for all phone numbers with a certain area code in order to update your contacts after an area code change.

Mail Scripts are fully localized in English, German, Dutch, French, Italian, Greek, Brazilian Portuguese, and Norwegian.

What's new in this version:

Improvements/bugfixes:

(Archive Messages): make sure to limit file name length to 255 bytes, not 255 (Unicode) characters to prevent error messages when exporting messages with long subjects containing non-ASCCI characters.
(Archive Messages): prevent AppleScript error when choosing a new archive location if the previously selected folder was deleted while the script was running.
(Export Addresses): make sure that the Unicode BOM is written correctly regardless of the CPU type in order to prevent writing seemingly garbage when exporting UTF-16 files.
(Filter Sent Messages): correct processing of rules with multiple criteria if the first criteria was true and the second one contained an "Any Recipient" rule - "Any Recipient" was previously always matched in this case.
(Schedule Delivery, Send All Drafts): work around the "The message cannot be sent using the server (null)" issue for messages with formatting or attachments when running under MacOS X 10.5 Note: messages other than plain text sent from a POP account with either of these scripts will not show up in the "Sent" mailbox after delivery - instead, you will get a copy of the message delivered to your Inbox (via Bcc).
Significantly decrease the download size of the scripts.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9

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Send all drafts still doesn't work - Version: 2.8.3, 9/22/2008 01:13PM PST

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jimbimbom

I upgraded to this version because the previous version had trouble with "Send All Drafts". I save several outgoing messages as drafts when I don't have access to an outgoing mail server. When I get to a place where I do have access to an outgoing mail server, I run "Send All Drafts". The problem is that I get an error telling me that SMTP server "NULL" is not available, for each message. That makes the script useless because I still have to deal with each message one at a time. I could just as easily go to the drafts folder, click on each message and click send. Am I doing something wrong or is there a bug in this program?

Caution! - Version: 2.8.3, 8/28/2008 01:18PM PST

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roadmapdan

I just went through two weeks of hell with my MBP and finally diagnosed the problem: Mail Scripts. While I sincerely appreciate the developer's efforts and the need for this product (why doesn't Apple just build in a remove duplicates function?????), it caused major problems for me.

I was running 10.5.4 updated through Software Update and had just migrated to Mail.app (3.3). Everything was working fine, except I had all these duplicate emails after importing my Entourage mailboxes. I downloaded MailScripts, installed, and it worked fine in removing dupes, albeit very slowly.

My Mail.app started to hang at various times, on startup, on message open or close, at random times. My screen would freeze except for the cursor, and nothing would happen for up to 10 minutes, when then all of a sudden all the user actions would happen in rapid succession (moving a window, opening a message, closing it, typing characters). I had no time to wait so would do a hard restart. Any application that was open and being used would freeze if Mail was open, and it would happen within a few minutes after Mail.app was started.

Now, I never thought Mail Scripts was the issue, and proceeded to do the usual troubleshooting, with no success. The last resort was doing a clean install of 10.5.2 and then updating with the 10.5.4 stand-alone installer. I re-installed apps from downloads or CDs, not from my SuperDuper backup. Everything worked great and was super fast. This was a few days ago.

Yesterday night I was going through my mail and realized I had more dupes in some mailboxes. Then I realized that I didn't have Mail Scripts anymore with the clean install, so I downloaded and installed it, and removed my dupes. Shut down and called it a night.

This morning, booted up my MBP, opened Mail, and voila, within a few minutes, everything freezed. It was a sudden realization that Mail Scripts may be the problem, which I had not thought of at all before this point. After a few more tries and hard restarts, I trashed Mail Scripts (you have to trash them from two locations, in your root library, and your user library), and everything is fine now.

I mistakenly thought all my problems were due to MobileMe and the IMAP issues they've had. There may have been some overlap with the issues, but Mail Scripts was definitely the problem for me, using Leopard. Hopefully this post will help others who may be having the same issues.

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Mail Scripts - Archive messages - Version: 2.8.3, 8/6/2008 01:20AM PST

ktl001

On the whole this is a really useful script - we use the ability to file email messages as RTF documents with the attachments attached directly to a folder on the server. The fact that it includes the date created in the email program within the title bar of each document is hugely helpful. However - I couldn't get the filter by date function to work: despite limiting archiving to select documents after a particular date, the script always archived all messages within the chosen mailbox. Fix this and it would be perfect!