I’m trying to write a simple script in Entourage that will enable me to make a quick list of people who have emailed me on a certain topic, so I can send them information via snail mail.
I’m 99% of the way there. I have a script that gets the “sender” property from Entourage and appends it to a file. Like this:
repeat with theMessage in selectedMessages
set thesender to sender of theMessage
copy thesender to end of AllSenders
and then on to a file. So far it works perfectly, except for one problem – there’s a lot of unneeded characters that are included in that “sender” variable – like reco
..snip declarations...
repeat with theMessage in selectedMessages
-- get the information from the message, and store it in variables
set addresssender to display name of sender of theMessage
copy addresssender to end of AllSenders
copy {" "} to end of AllSenders
end repeat
try
set theFile to choose file name default name "Sender Export"
open for access theFile with write permission
set eof theFile to 0
write AllSenders to theFile
close access theFile
end try
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And here’s what I ended up with:
set selectedMessages to current messages
set AllSenders to {} as list
set AllNames to {} as list
set addresssender to {}
set messagenum to 0 as integer
set displaynum to 2 as integer
set recordseparator to return
repeat with theMessage in selectedMessages
-- get the information from the message, and store it in variables
set Tempsender to address of sender of theMessage
set AllSenders to AllSenders & " " & Tempsender as list
set messagenum to messagenum + 1
end repeat
set dialognum to "Email Addresses Harvested: " & messagenum
display dialog dialognum
try
set theFile to choose file name default name "Sender Export"
open for access theFile with write permission
set eof theFile to 0
repeat messagenum times
set FinalSenders to text item displaynum of AllSenders
set displaynum to displaynum + 2
write FinalSenders to theFile
write recordseparator to theFile
end repeat
close access theFile
end try
For some reason concatenating the results together corrupted that variable with all sorts of garbage – like “TEXT!!” between each result, while writing each one to the file one at a time didn’t. Dunno, I just tried a bunch of things until this worked.
I have a feeling this was some classic newbie stuff and I should have known better how to create string that’s a list of text terms. But hey, it works… posting in case who knows maybe someone else like me wanders along in the distant future.