Re: Mac: getting mail.app to talk to filemaker



Helpful Harry wrote:

In article <tomstiller-788C68.18365508052007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Tom Stiller <tomstiller@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


In article <H--dnWg2eddIct3bnZ2dnUVZ8vydnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
TheMekon <SpamBeGone@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I spend soooooooooooooo much time filing emails by hand, there has to be a bter way.

What I would liek to do is this:

FMP server 8 on OS X 10.3.9
FMP and mail.app on client computers 10.3.9

FMP has a "contacts database", records have fields for "email adress" and "mailbox name"

What I would like is something that will do this:
for selected emails in mail.app
match "from" address to "email address" in contacts databse
get related "mailbox name" for that record
move email to mailbox of that name

Would anyone care to suggest how i might do this?

many thanks

Since both applications support AppleScript, that would seem to be a good place to start.


The words "sledgehammer" and "walnut" spring to mind here. :o)

It would be much easier, and quicker, to set-up separate email
addresses (or aliases), have people send emails to the appropriate
address and then use the Rules in Mail to sort the incoming mail
according to what email address they were sent to.
eg.
Instead of everyone sending emails to JoeBloggs@xxxxxxxxx
they could send to:
AGMReplies@xxxxxxxxx
SeminarReplies@xxxxxxxxx
TVReviews@xxxxxxxxx
etc.

Many ISP and website hosting services offer unlimited aliases these
days.

Helpful Harry Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

Thanks but no. I think I need to explaain more: The contacts in question are external contacts, my contacts DB must obviously have the real email addresses in. Aliases aren't relevant. The number of contacts / email addresses to be handled is perpetually increasing day by day.

Anything based on rules won't do (that's what I do now). The current procedure is:

1. we get a new customer
2. we create a record for them in the contacts DB
3. we create a mailbox for them
4. we create a mail rule to file outgoing and incoming mail in the appropriate mailbox.

This is far too much trouble. I want to script numbers 3 and 4 so that they are done for me automatically when I do number 2. But I don't know enough Applescript and am wondering if anyone has done anything similar and can advise.

Thanks


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