Rule for outwards (posts to newsgroups)

[Clive Huggan]

Dear all,

Having moved to Entourage 2004 a couple of weeks ago from Eudora, during the
past few days I have been setting up rules for inwards and outwards mail,
which has revolutionized the way I handle e-mail traffic.

I wanted to do the same thing for outwards news traffic -- e.g. posts to
this and other Mac MVP newsgroups. The rule I wanted was essentially to put
all posts in a newsgroup folder in Entourage, as in this example for the Mac
Word newsgroup:

Rule name: Mac Word newsgroup out

Execute if any criteria are met

If any To recipient is microsoft.public.mac.office.word

Then move message Word posts <-- this is title of folder.


Problem is, this is not sending my posts to the "Word posts" folder; they
stay in "Sent items".

I realize there is a Newsgroups rule tab, but the options there don't
provide what I need to do.

Help greatly appreciated, as before!

OS 10.3.5.

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is at least 5 hours different from the US and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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[Rudy Kohut]

Clive

Try creating the rule under the "Outgoing" tab - allows you to move a copy
from the "outgoing" folder to any other folder. Just specify the "To
recipient" as the newsgroup. This should work - see "Create a rule" in
Entourage Help.

 

[Clive Huggan]

Thanks for getting back, Rudy.

I now realize I did not explicitly say I had actually made this rule as an
Outgoing rule. I did the same as you suggest. Of course I could be missing
something.

Cheers,

Clive
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[Rudy Kohut]

Clive

I have set up a similar rule and will test it by sending this reply out.
Will it work for me? Stay tuned.

Rudy

 

[Rudy Kohut]

Clive

Further ...

I now realize that there is no "To:" in the header of a message sent to a
newsgroup! Hence the rule will not work. The best alternative I can think of
is to put a key word eg. "newsgroup" in every message and have the rule
check the body of the message for that word. Maybe put it in your signature?

Rudy

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

Better would be to get my script Sent News Messages X. it lets you specify
either a single folder, or separate sent folders for individual newsgroups,
or a combination of both (separate folders for some newsgroups, with a
"catch-all" folder for other newsgroups). There's a bug with one of those
preferences (discovered by our fellow MVP Daiya Mitchell only a week or so
ago). I've fixed it but haven't posted it yet. I should be posting v1.0.1
later today or tomorrow at

MacScripter.net <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

So wait until then. It will work more reliably than the workaround below.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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otherwise.

 

[Clive Huggan]

Great idea, Rudy! I wouldn't have thought of that in 1,000 daylight-saving
Sundays! I'll do that.

I wonder whether Messrs Berkowitz, Basil et al have something (like Walt's
Return Receipt work-around that I installed the other day) -- I'd have
thought what I'm wanting to do would be a fairly frequent occurrence.

Thank you for taking the trouble to check it out further. I'll now ponder
something unique to put in my signature.

Cheers,

Clive

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[Clive Huggan]

Thank you, Paul -- I'll do that.

When I looked at the alternatives under "News" rules, the only way I could
achieve my aim via the "News" rule was to e-mail off all my posts to one of
my other e-mail addresses and create a rule at that address, or to create a
unique Category and move it on that basis as a 2nd step. Not very useful,
really.

Cheers,

Clive

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