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Use iCal to set a response reminder for a Mail message
Hi Mark, this is starting to be interesting :-))
But is widening the discussion too, so let me know if you start to get bored, either/or prefer that we disccuss this directly in private mails and post only the results to forum...
The URL thing is very cool, I overlooked this too, and it does solve the problem I hit yesterday, but cuts the functionality, but let me go one by one.
Your approach with URL solves my latest problem and this is how to open this damn emlx file. Finder does not want to open it (or I'm doing something wrong), mail and message viewer do open it but show only an empty vidow with a b..it note that the message was not downloaded from the server...
just try to add
at the last line of your example code and you will see what do I mean.
I went then into automator which opens it too but then we are getting tangled in AS - Automator calls and this does not go smoot either, so we better skip it. Why is this so complicated when a simple double click from finder works, I have no idea....
But with URL approach you miss one functionality I implemented and this is updates. When I have an update to the event, like they guy replied that he will answer in 3 days, then I write an update into the ical event, postpone it for 3 days, and in the update I write a new id with which I can open the refering email message. With the URL approach I could add the URL to the even text, but first the URL is long, second it will not work with a click. I could replace the original URL but the I would lose the reference to the first email...
Also, there is one big difference between yours and mine, you search for the path at the moment of creation of the event, and I want to log only the ID and search for it at the moment of opening the emlx file, which overcomes the reminder mailbox problem.
So now we can go two ways, one is yours, URL in event, no additional links to update emails, this makes the script much simpler, or mine but then we should figure out how to open an emlx file from applescript.
As I said let me know when you had enough. For me it is kind of a challenge and therefore fun, but maybe you or others simply want a working solution no matter how good it is.
BTW I have no idea why the mdfind takes so long, and maybe you can shorten it by using the -onlyin option.
Let me know,
Zsolt
Use iCal to set a response reminder for a Mail message
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Use iCal to set a response reminder for a Mail message
It is not a problem to code it (I guess) but to make an appropriate dialog for selection, as the AS does not support radio buttons or checkmarks. This means you would need then two separate dialogs and that is not very ellegant, but again doable. Let us sort out the current problems and we might come back to this later on. Thanks for input. |
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