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- * Input file for Disgruntled Postal Worker
- * Version 1.1Ω ©1995 by Jonathan Guyer <j-guyer@nwu.edu>
-
- * A mail sorter for Eudora 1.5.1 (and later?)
- * (for those of us who are too cheap to buy the commercial version).
- * It sorts all mail in the "In" and/or "Out" box, according to an
- * instruction file.
-
- * In addition to a basic AppleScript installation, you should only need
- * to ensure that Apple's Scripting Additions has been installed
- * (specifically, the "Read/Write Commands" OSAX).
- * DPW does not rely on a Scriptable Finder.
- * The EudoraNotify.osax will help readability, but is not needed for the script
- * to function.
-
- * If you make changes to the instruction file, you must quit and restart DPW.
- *
- * The instruction file must be called "Sorting_Instructions"
- * and be in the same folder as DPW.
-
- * Version History:
- * (WARNING!!: this script is so alpha, it's omega.
- * I guarantee/warant/pledge/promise/assure Nothing!!
- * That said, enjoy!)
- *
- * 1.1Ω 3/31/95
- * Enabled sorting of "Out" box
- * Enabled sorting of entire mailbox on startup
- * Renamed flags to hopefully make a little more sense
- * Added a AppleEvent TimeOut delay variable to help ensure that the first
- * mail on startup gets sorted
- *
- * 1.0Ω3 2/27/95
- * Renamed input file to "Sorting_Instructions"
- * Added #sortAllNewMessages# flag
- * Stopped sorting entire "In" box
- *
- * 1.0Ω2 2/26/95
- * Moved instructions file from System:Preferences to folder with DPW
- *
- * 1.0Ω 2/24/95
- * Humble beginnings
-
- * This script was inspired by example scripts by Chuck Shotton
- * (author of MacHTTP) on the MacHTTP LISTSERVER and from the Qualcomm example
- * scripts file <ftp://www.qualcomm.com/mac/quest/eudora/mac/scripts/>
-
- * If Eudora is currently a startup application, it is recommended that this
- * script (or an alias to it) be put in the Startup Items folder instead.
- * This ensures that Disgruntled Postal Worker is stalking the Post Office before
- * any mail comes in (you don't want to get it upset, do you?).
- * Eudora will be launched by DPW.
-
- * I've introduced the following flags:
-
- #sortUnreadMessagesOnly#
-
- * If this flag is present, only unread mail will be sorted, all new mail gets
- * sorted, otherwise all new mail gets sorted.
- * The second case (without the flag) is useful if you
- * receive a lot of mail and you start reading it while DPW is still sorting;
- * this way it will get sorted anyway
- * (although, the message you are reading may get snatched away).
-
- * #sortWholeBox#
-
- * This flag saves having to run a whole separate script to get your life in
- * order for the first time.
- * If this flag is present, the entire mail box ("In" and/or "Out", depending on
- * the next two flags) will get sorted on startup. If #sortUnreadMessagesOnly# is
- * set, then only the unread messages will get sorted. I recommend setting this
- * flag the first time you run DPW and then commenting it out. You shouldn't ever
- * need to use it again, but it's nice to know that it's there just in case
- * something causes your mail to not get sorted.
-
- #sortInBox#
- #sortOutBox#
-
- * These two flags should be pretty self-explanatory.
- * See the following to determine how each box gets sorted.
-
-
- * The instructions file consists of a series of tab delimited instructions:
- * <IN FIELD> <TAB> <OUT FIELD> <TAB> <STRING> <TAB> <PATH>
- *
- * <IN FIELD> is an RFC 822 header field for the "In" box. If Eudora can't
- * understand it, the instruction is ignored.
- * <OUT FIELD> is an RFC 822 header field for the "Out" box. If Eudora can't
- * understand it, the instruction is ignored.
- * <STRING> is a search string. If <FIELD> of an incoming message contains
- * <STRING> then the message is moved to the mailbox indicated by
- * <PATH>.
- * <PATH> consists of [<MAIL FOLDER> <TAB>]<MAILBOX>. <MAIL FOLDER>'s
- * can be nested arbitrarily deep. If <PATH> doesn't resolve to
- * something Eudora knows, the transfer instruction is ignored.
-
- * Any line starting with an '*' is considered a comment and is ignored.
- * NOTE: You can reduce the load time of this file significantly by removing
- * all of these comment lines.
- * Make a copy first!!!
- * On my PMac 7100/66 it's the difference between about 17 secs with
- * comments and 2 seconds without.
- * The time to process sorts will not be affected.
-
- * If more than a few sorts are defined, this can be excruciatingly slow.
- * Put the most heavily used ones (like LISTSERVERS) near the top.
- * Does anyone have any suggestions?
-
- * I don't know why, but I can't get Eudora to activate properly:
- *
- * IF "Settings:Checking Mail:Check for mail every ___ minutes." is not blank
- * (you have selected automatic mail checking)
- * AND "Settings:Checking Mail:Save password" is not checked,
- * THEN Eudora sits in the background waiting to be activated and have a
- * password entered.
- * IF "Settings:Getting Attention:Use an alert." is not checked,
- * it's quite likely that Eudora will time-out on its password request
- * before you notice it.
- * This isn't a disaster; just not the way I'd like it to work.
-
- * To minimize the problems assosciated with the above, I've added a timeout delay,
- * which defaults to 300 seconds, but which can be set by:
-
- * #startUpDelay# 300
-
- * If the user enters nothing, Eudora's password dialog times out in about
- * 2 minutes. The default setting of 5 minutes allows at least 3 minutes to
- * download mail after the user enters a password. If the mail download takes
- * longer, DPW will report a timeout error, but it will sort the mail anyway.
- * If you download lots of messages over a modem line, you might wish to extend
- * this delay, just to avoid having to aknowledge DPW's error message.
- * I'm not aware that there are any particular repurcussions to setting it
- * longer.
- * Anybody??
-
- * This flag is only relevant on startup of DPW & Eudora and only if automatic
- * mail checking is selected.
-
- * Without this delay, the default AppleScript delay of 1 minute caused DPW to
- * report a timeout error before Eudora got tired and put its password dialog
- * away. If the user entered a password in the next minute, the mail sometimes
- * did not get sorted (a major pain, I know).
-
-
-
-
- * If a message satisfies more than one of the following instructions, it will be
- * sorted according to the first one. Likewise, if a message in the "Out" box is
- * sent to multiple recipients, it will be sorted according to the first match. I
- * may eventually figure out how to not sort multiple-recipient outgoing mail.
- * Any thoughts?
-
- * To sort mail from LISTSERVERS, use the sender field.
- * The mail author (From:...) varies, but sender is the LISTSERVER.
- * Will this always work?
-
- * So, the first instruction below means that messages in the "In" box that have
- * 'owner-machttp-talk@academ.com' in the 'Sender:' field will got sorted to
- * 'Lists:MacHTTP:MacHTTP List'. Likewise, messages in the "Out" box that have
- * 'owner-machttp-talk@academ.com' in the 'To:' field will get sorted to the
- * same mailbox.
-
- sender to owner-machttp-talk@academ.com Lists MacHTTP MacHTTP list
- sender to Macintosh Scripting Systems Lists MacScript
- sender to nih-image@soils.umn.edu Lists NIH Image
-
- * It may arise that the <STRING> for the "In" and "Out" boxes won't be the same.
- * Maybe I have a nickname defined such that mail I address to 'MacGod' gets sent
- * to John Norstad, but mail I get from him (I actually do get mail from John,
- * occasionally, and it's cause for much rejoicing by the peasants) is from
- * 'John Norstad'. In this event, I'd need to define two separate
- * instructions:
-
- to MacGod I'm not worthy Norstad
-
- * and
-
- from John Norstad I'm not worthy Norstad
-
- * This way, mail both to and from Norstad would get sorted to
- * "I'm not worthy:Norstad" (as opposed to "I'm not worthy:Locklear" or
- * "I'm not worthy:Elvis" (I don't get nearly so much mail from them))
-
- * Note the null field at the beginning of the first instruction and
- * in the second position of the second instruction.
- * Instructions with null fields will be ignored by the sorter, i.e., my
- * "In" box will not get searched for messages involving "MacGod".
- * In general, it's preferable not to have these double instructions,
- * since each instruction takes some time, whether it's implemented or not.
-
- * Be very careful with spaces and tabs. DPW won't puke on spaces in your paths,
- * but it's almost impossible to tell spaces and tabs apart in SimpleText.
- * Tabs are valid field delimiters; spaces are not.
- * Spaces are valid characters in any of the fields; tabs are not.
-