Re: Erage 2004 changes

[Allen Watson]

Title: Re: Erage 2004 changes

On or near 6/16/04 2:18 AM, Scott Haneda at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:

> Now, I use a strip html script to "see" the real urls, which in the cases
> where I am wrong, and it is a valid email, renders me a edited and messy
> email that is often hard to read.  You would be surprised by the number of
> online bills I get as HTML that have no plain text alternative parts.
>
One possible alternative would be to modify the strip HTML script to open a note window or draft window with the stripped message, rather than writing over the original. You would just delete the new window when done. Something like this:

on run
    tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
        set theMessages to the current messages as list
        repeat with theMsg in theMessages
            my ProcessMsg(theMsg)
        end repeat
    end tell
end run

-- process the messages
on ProcessMsg(theMsg)
    tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
        if the has html of theMsg is false then return
        set stripped to (get the content of theMsg as Unicode text)
        set newWindow to make new draft window with properties {content:stripped}
    end tell
end ProcessMsg

> I sent this in to the feedback link for e-rage 04, no reply, I really can
> not stress how much I personally want this feature back :-)  It has to be a
> bug, plain text allows me to "define" a word, quick way to lookup a word you
> do not know, in HTML emails, you can not do this either, no control click
> available.
>
They rarely reply, but I’m sure they’ve entered it into the database.

> In the mean time, is there any way that a script could be made to parse all
> urls out of the current email, put those urls in a dialog box for display on
> screen, but leave the original email not altered?

The script above could be adapted (with considerable effort) to strip out all but the URLs, but do you really need that or want it? The surrounding text helps identify which URL is which.