Automatically inserting bckd image when creating email in Entourage

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#1

I am a newbie to scripting and would appreciate some help. I am looking to create a script that will automatically insert a background image in emails I am creating in Entourage. For some reason they don’t allow an email template or an assignment of an image as a deafult when you hit compose.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

DA

#2

This works for me (change the bgImag path to match a real image in your disk):

set bgImg to alias "path:to:file.jpg"

set msgContents to "Date: " & (do shell script "date '+%a, %e %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z'") & "
Subject: <no subject>
Mime-version: 1.0
Content-type: multipart/related;
	boundary=\"xxxxxxxxxx\"

> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand
this format, some or all of this message may not be legible.

--xxxxxxxxxx
Content-type: multipart/alternative;
	boundary=\"yyyyyyyyyy\"

--yyyyyyyyyy
Content-type: text/plain;
	charset=\"US-ASCII\"
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit



--yyyyyyyyyy
Content-type: text/html;
	charset=\"US-ASCII\"
Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable

<HTML>
<HEAD>

</HEAD>
<BODY background=3D\"cid:myImg\">
</BODY>
</HTML>


--yyyyyyyyyy--


--xxxxxxxxxx
Content-Type: image/jpeg; name=\"image.jpg\"
Content-ID: <myImg>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64" & return & return & ¬
	(do shell script "openssl base64 < " & quoted form of POSIX path of bgImg) & ¬
	return & return & "--xxxxxxxxxx--"

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
	make new outgoing message at drafts folder with properties {has html:true, source:msgContents}
	open result
end tell

Note that it will be saved at drafts folder by default (so, you must delete it manually if you don’t like it)