Applescript for Mail Question

Is it possible to create an Applescript for Mail, that, when an email with a specific subject line arrives in my inbox, an attached photograph would get sent immediately in response to the person who sent the email. The subject lines would vary (e.g., people_1, or, places_16). Every subject line would have a corresponding photo located somewhere on my hard drive (there would be hundreds of possibilities - the catalogue would be concentrated in one place). So, for example, when "places_21" hits my Mail in box, an email would be generated in response, automatically, with a photo (places_21) attached. Thank you! Marcos

Actually, it's not that hard to do, it's just that there are a lot of use cases, and a lot of caveats to consider.
For example, do you intend/expect to work from a predefined list of image file names? Or do you want/expect to react to any filename that's requested?
You say that the files would be 'somewhere on my hard drive'... how does the script know where to look? How does it resolve filename conflicts? What should happen if a file can't be found?
As fane suggests, you should also consider an audit log, so you can see who asked for what, and when, along with errors that occurred on the way.
So it's entirely do-able, just a lot of questions to answer before you get started.

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How can I avoid that error?
I don't actually know how you can avoid that error. However, maybe you can use a workaround and have the script rebuild the mailboxes automatically when such an error occurs. Try the following code:
tell application "Mail"
try
    set OldStuff to every message of mailbox TheBox where date received of it < OldDate
on error
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Which community for Mail questions?

Mail is not listed as a community and wherever I did post a Mail question, I got zero response.
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Thanks.
I can't figure out how to get there. Would you lay out the path for me please?
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I'm not sure I get the question.
If it is "could you use AppleScript to create mail merge for Pages with Excel?", the answer is, Yes. Both Pages and Excel are scriptable.
If the question is "has anyone done it yet?", I don't know, but it could be a fun exercise.
If the question is "would there be a market, if someone (you?) wrote and released such a script?", I cannot tell, but personally I would probably write a hack that worked only for my own needs - if I had them. The overhead with usability, testing, different address formats, languages, different Excel sheet formats, and so on, makes me guess that the investment wouldn't pay off for a generic solution. Especially considering both Pages and MS Office already have their own mail merge functions.

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I have looked everywhere for this and found nothing. I don't have 40 hours to learn applescript myself but from the little I do know this should be possible. Probably easy.
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I found a workaround, though there must be something neater.
I added this before my script
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I have never written an AppleScript before, so I don't know if this is even possible. But, here goes...
I manually process my junk mail by opening each message, clicking on "Long Headers," and forwarding to [email protected] Is it possible to write a script that would allow this process to be automated?
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the selection
properties of item 1 of the result
set thisHeader to all headers of the result
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Or Google and there will be plenty of simpler ones. Truth be told, the Apple sample scripts are about the worst for learning from.

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If you are still having problems, then there is something wrong with your file that you are trying to attach, or your declaration of this variable:
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Here is the payroll ending today: " & return & return
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make new attachment with properties {file name:pay_Path as alias} at after the last paragraph
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send b
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I found this on Mactech. All I did was add the line "make new outgoing........", well, it does NOT work. What do you have to do to make Mail trigger an applescript. All I want to do is when I an email reminder, to just make a new email message with Happy Birthday in the Subject. I'll click the stationary and add a birthday background. Any help would be appreciated.
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sorry but your suggestion did NOT work. Here is what I wrote and it did NOT make a difference the script will NOT generate an outgoing message.
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just like to add in my script based on the above
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--- Code starts here ---
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--- Code ends here ---
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I am a professor, and I am looking to write several simple scripts for Apple's Mail client. These scripts all involve replying to students (vs. replying to colleagues, or others).
The first script I am looking for would create a new blank message and set the signature of that message to a predefined sig called "Teaching".
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2) Before sending a message, specify a folder to store the outgoing message. This could be done via bcc in Eudora, and can be done separately in Entourage, but I don't know enough to figure out how to do it in Mail.
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1) After moving a filtered incoming message to a prescribed folder (can do this easily), open the message in a new window (or go to the folder and show message).
You might want to take a look at the Open Message and Open Mailbox scripts available from Mail Scripts - they should do exactly what you are looking for:
http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/
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This is not possible in Mail since you cannot hook into the sending action to perform actions before sending (and rules per se don't apply to outgoing messages). However, you might check out the Filter Sent Messages script from the above referenced Mail Scripts as somewhat of a work-around.
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