This is a very rough, quick & dirty to use to have Eudora reply to a message in Easy-View digests. It consists of two script applications: Easy-View reply, and Run auto-reply. Put (Easy-View reply) wherever you like; put the "Run auto-reply" app (or an alias to it) on the Desktop near the edge of screen. AS will ask where to find Easy-View reply the first time you run it. This is a stay-open app: in case you're replying to a series of messages in a digest it runs faster each time since it's already open. It is fired each time by the "Run auto-reply" app.
Note that for this to work properly, the "addresses" file and the Easy-View reply application *must* be in the same folder, wherever you choose to place it. The Run auto-reply application may be anywhere you wish.
This app (Easy-View reply) parses the contents of the clipboard for Subject content, tokenizes and reformats to delete the headers, opens a new Eudora message and pastes in the original message text and the Subject: info. It also pops up a list from which you may choose the "To:" field contents of your reply message: either post it to a mailing list (whose name you must enter in an addresses file ahead of time), or email it direct to the person whose posting you are reading. The script expects to see an addresses file using the pathname I used to write this; you will have to create that file and fix the alias statement in the script (yes, I could have done a whole drill to create it automatically but wasn't up for that...).
The Idle handler pops up a dialog at pre-set intervals to ask if you want this app to stay open. You may change the time interval in the 'property' declaration and/or delete the dialog part of the Idle handler if you don't want this feature.
Open your View; when you have a message to reply to, use Copy Section in the Edit Menu (V 2.3.3), or Cmd-C (v2.5) to place the msg text in the Clipboard, then **immediately** go to the "Run auto-reply" app & dbl-click. You will be left with an open Eudora message with the text of the message you're replying to highlighted. If you want to quote that text, press Cmd-C, then Cmd-' Cmd-Apostrophe) **before** touching another key.
Warning: I have no idea if this works with other digests; I just looked at a MacScript one and wrote it to do that job. This is a real one-trick pony.
Written using Eudora 2.1. I think it should work with 1.5.x, but have no idea about 1.4.x
All comments and questions are welcome. Send me a postcard if you find this useful.
If you don't have the osaxen listed below in the Scripting Additions folder in your Systems Extensions folder, this script will not run. They are available by ftp from: gaea.kgs.ukans.edu, in the AppleScript directory.
Osaxen required:
(and with thanks)
Jon's Commands - Jon Pugh
Tokenize - Wayne Walrath
Read/Write - Apple
Replace - ACME Script Widgets - Wayne Walrath
Choose from List - GTQ Programming Suite, Gregory T. Quinn
