[X4U] Entourage: Export msg body to text file

[Charles Howse]

> On 1/20/06 2:22 PM, Charles Howse <chowse at charter.net> wrote:
> 
>> Can anyone give me a place to start looking for a way to take the body of an
>> Entourage message, and programmatically *append* it to a text file? I would
>> also like to insert a blank line at the beginning of the text to be appended.
>> 
>> I'm thinking AppleScript
> 
> Yes, AppleScript indeed! It's a simple enough script, Charles, and I'll be
> happy to throw it together for you. A couple questions: do you already have
> a preexisting file, or should the script create one? And do you want to
> append just the message you're viewing or a group of messages you've
> selected?
> 
> --Bill

Yeaaaaa!  Thanks Bill!
The 'perfect' script  will take the bodies of the selected message or
messages, append them to the existing file
/Users/Charles/Sites/TVWB/buddies.html, with a blank line between each, then
mark the messages as read.

Just to make things harder, if we could ignore any messages other than plain
text, that would help.  I can handle that if necessary.

In the spirit of "You scratch my back...", here is a little bash script that
I use inside an Applescript application to generate the signature below.
It's just a 'do shell script <path-to-file>', you must have fortune-mod
installed (Fink).

#!/bin/sh

file=fort_sig.txt

echo > $file
echo >> $file
echo "--" >> $file
echo "Charles" >> $file
echo >> $file

/sw/bin/fortune -s >> $file

pbcopy < $file 
rm $file


--
Charles

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