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Use an Entourage rule to confirm outgoing attachments Apps
How often do you send an email an forget the attachment? After years of doing this, I noticed that Entourage's rules have an Outgoing section. I added a rule, with two criteria, 'message body contains: attach' and 'attachment: does not exist,' with the corresponding actions of 'display dialog: you may have forgotten the attachment,' and 'move message: Inbox.'

This sort-of works, but I'd really like the dialog to offer 'send/don't send' as the options, so that you have better control. Any volunteers to take this forward? Entourage rules allow you to launch an AppleScript as the action for a rule, so that's a possibility, if only my AppleScript was any good.
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Use an Entourage rule to confirm outgoing attachments
Authored by: macslut on Mar 08, '06 09:41:25AM

This is an awesome hint for me as I'm in the habit of including "See Attached" in the message body (to avoid null messages). It would be great to *stop* the email, but as far as I can tell the rules in Entourage are applied after the email has been sent, so an AppleScript wouldn't help. I think this makes sense as usually outgoing rules are used for moving a message to another folder or something where the actually sending of the message would need to take place first.

Still, it's a lot better to resend a message with an attachment rather than being asked to resend a message with an attachment...that is for those of us that are afflicted with this issue ;)



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Use an Entourage rule to confirm outgoing attachments
Authored by: bostmass on Mar 09, '06 07:02:43AM

I use drop 'n mail, which is an applescript for entourage or mail that allows you to send attachments from anywhere on your computer and even send them later. Might be what you're looking for.

http://www.nonamescriptware.com/forums/index.php?&act=Downloads&CODE=02&id=8

Also check out macscripter.net for tons of applescripts for entourage (plus a lot of other apps).



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