On 12/23/02 06:02, George Clark wrote: > On 12/23/02 01:05, Paul Berkowitz wrote: > >> On 12/22/02 9:42 PM, "Ken Gordon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> It does not appear to be possible to create rules based on an IMAP message's >>> content. In Apple Mail, I created a number of rules that were based on >>> content - messages that contained, for example, "We are strongly against >>> sending unsolicited emails" were immediately deleted, as were other similar >>> things like messages mentioning H.R. 4176, etc. This turned out to be >>> enormously successful in eliminating a very large part of the spam I was >>> receiving. Now since I moved to Entourage X I am getting those messages once >>> more, and when I went to recreate those rules in Entourage X it appears to >>> be impossible. Am I missing something? >> >> I suppose it may have something to do with the having to read the whole >> cache, but it's equally possible that it's a bug: no "Message body" >> criterion for IMAP Rules. You're quite right. Let's see if an MBU person has >> an answer. > > I'm not 'an MBU person', but my guess is that it's because only the headers > are downloaded for an IMAP message, so a Rule can't check the message body. > A workaround might be to use a Rule to 'retrieve from server', then run an > AppleScript that checks the message's content and takes appropriate > action...but that assumes the script would actually be getting the complete > message to work with. You'd probably want to limit it to messages where the > recipient isn't in your Address Book.
Well, a bit of testing on my part seems to indicate that this approach won't work. As I suspected, the script apparently runs before the message has been downloaded. George -- George Clark - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
