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Authored by: krove on Sep 24, '02 07:07:58PM

While annoying, the reason is far from stupid. Security appears to be the main goal of asking the user to allow AppleScript to send mail. If it didn't ask, an unknowing user might launch a malicious AS that gets all the addresses from his/her address book and mails a copy of itself (i.e. what MS Outlook virii do on a daily basis).

Using sendmail is a good workaround, though!



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Authored by: mrbiiggy on Apr 03, '03 03:17:07AM

While I realize this, and do know why it's there, it's still frustrating having Mail.app get in the way and not getting the email when I'm not around to click "send" :)



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