Simple Applescript request for entourage

[TiranNYC]

Hi All,

I am totally new to Applescripts, but what I have to do is VERY
simple. I would appreciate a pointer.

When I am away from my desk, and I get an email from a particular
person, I want Entourage to text message me on my cell phone. So,
this is what I've done so far:

I set Entourage to get mail every ten minutes.
I set a rule if an email message from so-and-so comes, forward to my
text message address.

But the only thing that happens is that it sits in my outbox. How do
I get it to SEND?

I don't see a SEND instruction under the rules, but then I saw the
Applescript option. Is there an Applescript that will instruct
Entourage to forward me the message?

Would appreciate your help.

Thanks.

 

[William M. Smith]

Hi All,

I am totally new to Applescripts, but what I have to do is VERY
simple. I would appreciate a pointer.

When I am away from my desk, and I get an email from a particular
person, I want Entourage to text message me on my cell phone. So,
this is what I've done so far:

I set Entourage to get mail every ten minutes.
I set a rule if an email message from so-and-so comes, forward to my
text message address.

But the only thing that happens is that it sits in my outbox. How do
I get it to SEND?

I don't see a SEND instruction under the rules, but then I saw the
Applescript option. Is there an Applescript that will instruct
Entourage to forward me the message?

You've got the right idea about what you want to do. Entourage will send
first and then receive. Therefore when you forward a message it goes to your
Outbook and waits to be sent. Since the sending portion of the schedule has
been executed already, the message will wait until the next firing of the
schedule.

You can either initiate an Applescript to immediately send again or you can
simply set your Send & Receive schedule to execute about every minute. There
will still be about a minute delay between forwarding your message and it
actually being sent, but this is much less time than the default 10 minutes.

If you want an Applescript to fire, you simply need to put the following
into the Script Editor and save this as a compiled script in the Scripts
menu for Entourage for easy manual access or some place you prefer on your
computer:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
send
end tell

In your rule, you'll need to add a step to execute an Applescript and
specify the script you've created.

Hope this helps! bill