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Any issues with Applescript and Mail.app?
Authored by: steviestar on Feb 27, '06 10:42:59AM

I'm looking forward to trying this out in my environment as the built in Retrospect notification script has stopped working for me. (Or, to clarify, has stopped working for me in conjunction with Mail.app.) Strangely, whenever Retro attempts to send the email upon completion/cancellation of a script, Mail.app balks, stating there are no recipients specified. Sure enough, that's the case even though the applescript clearly specifies recipients. I think this may be due to some bug somewhere between AppleScript and Mail because iCal does the exact same thing when I try to send invites out—that is, iCal attaches the event, but fails to send it because the recipients don't transfer from iCal to Mail. Has anyone else exprienced this? It only seems to be ocurring with 10.4.3 and above. Plus, it could well be a Mail.app issue, so I'll give it a whirl with python.



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Any issues with Applescript and Mail.app?
Authored by: michno on Feb 27, '06 11:51:56AM

I have the exact same problem. They unsent mail is stored in the outbox, where you can see the recipient address clearly, but when you double-click they message Mail complains about a missing recipient. When you close the message again, the recipient address returns!!!



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Any issues with Applescript and Mail.app?
Authored by: gjw on Jun 04, '06 10:46:05AM

Hopefully people will see this even though the original message is months old. Apparently with the current version of mail, specifying an address as the "name" property of a receipient doesn't work. Change the Retrospect script to build "address" properties instead and it should start to flow.



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