Keeping e-mail alarms in the bg?

Not sure if this is an iCal question, a Mail question, or a Leopard question -- all I know is it stumped the Genius at my local Apple Store, so I'll try here first:
Is there a way to have iCal-trigged alarm e-mails to be sent in the background, instead of Mail suddenly popping up as the active app regardless of what you're doing at the time?
Pre-Leopard, the many e-mail reminder alarms I would set in iCal would always get sent in the background. But I've noticed in Leopard that Mail will bring the window for the alarm e-mail to the front just for a second or two when sending one. Aside from being a minor visual annoyance, if I'm in the middle of typing something (in a Pages doc, for instance), the Mail window pops up on screen and a few letters of whatever I'm typing get entered in the "To:" field, which then causes Mail to generate an error message telling me that "rty" (or whatever) is not a valid e-mail address. Duh.
I've checked the Prefs for both Mail and iCal, but aside from turning off all alarms (NOT an acceptable workaround) there doesn't seem to be anything applicable. But like I said, this was never a problem pre-Leopard -- all those automatic alarm e-mails got sent in the background, and never interfered with whatever application happened to be active at the time.
Is there any way to get that same behavior back again in Leopard?
John Bertram
Toronto

Austin Kinsella1 wrote:
The problem with this approach is that the script doesn't know what event has caused it to run, and so cannot include the detail "put the bin out tonight" unless you have a separate one for each event.
yes i realized this would be an issue.
It is possible, but difficult, to trawl through all events with a script to pick put the details - I have a script that does that. It involves parsing the recurrence data in each event with an alarm then stepping through its recurring dates to find the firing event.
wow, that's really cool!
Also, since the mechanism that iCal uses for sending an email alarm is, I think, Applescript, you are likely to run into the same issue.
I don't see why. the outgoing message status is set by the script not to be visible so it's sent in the background.
AK

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