Thanks for your post on this thread:
Nope, that won't work, for sure.
From: Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 21:18:35 -0700
Subject: Re: Contact -- group maintenance issues
On 10/5/05 8:08 PM, "henryn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Folks:View Source.
I've got an email in my "Sent Items" folder with 77 recipients. Well, I need to send all those folks another message.
I can select the message and just hit "Message-->Resend" and do it. Quick and dirty... and not maintainable.
But is there a way to retrieve all the addresses and make a group out of them, for the purposes of doing a bit of maintenance over time?
If you open the sent message into its own window, you'll see a lot of the recipients in the To header, and can (carefully) select as many as you see, and copy. But you won't see as many as 77.
Right, I figured that out, as I said. Hmmm, based on you next response, I'll bet there's also a script method of extracting these addresses, which would be a lot friendlier to a non-technical user and perhaps less error-prone.
Instead of View/Source, you can View/Internet Headers (with message in its own window). Pull down the divider between headers and message until you see all 77, select and copy. But I can't see how this is any different from doing it in Source, and Source is available also from Preview Pane messages. Either way, paste into a group window.
Unfortunately, Add to Address Book only works for senders, not recipients. You'd need to do it via a script. I don't know if anyone has made such a script yet. Here's a simple version that will work on selected Sent messages:
A related question:
When I set a search my "Sent Items" on a particular keyword, I find I have got 267 messages. Hmmm, I'd like to extract the addresses of all the recipients and add them to a group so I can send them some messages. Yes, many of the messages go to the same folks, so I'd need a way of processing for uniqueness.
I could most all that by hand, if necessary, if only I could get a hold of the contents of the "To" column of my search results. Or all columns, even, I could take care of isolating the recipients in an editor. How to get them? Again, "copy" is disabled.
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
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Wow, yes, that did what I needed, even eliminated most duplicates. (I found a few apparently identical entries, which should not have happened, but I'm not complaining.)
I wish I had time and sufficient spare brain cells to pick up scripting sufficient to do a task like this, but it seems that we all have limits. Thanks for the fish (immediate solution) and the clear example, which I could probably modify for related purposes.
I tried to export the resulting Group by dragging it to the Desktop as instructed by Entourage Help/the Export "wizard". The document title looked right (showed the range of addresses), the Preview Icon was correctly generated (showed some of the addresses) but the file was apparently empty when viewed in Notepad and Word. Don't tell me... I can use a script to export addresses any way I want.
Thanks again!
Henry
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