Mail and apple scripts

Anyone into scripting more than me..? I need some help !
I wish to set up an automated system where by if a 'hot' folder upon my desktop receives a newly created jpeg file, an email is then generated with an attatchment of the jpeg and sent out to a designated group of emails
Is this possible..?
Cheers
please email me or post here
Matt
www.matthewashton.com
Powerbook G4 and G5 and MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Matt,
Have you tried to do this with Automator yet?

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I haven't used these tools so I don't know for sure, but doesn't Tiger's parental controls (in the Accounts preference pane) allow you to enable/disable network access by account? Would that work to solve your problem?
EDIT: OK, by starting a new thread I guess you got the same response that I posted for your previous thread. For those interested, this is a continuation of the thread kevin macky, "Account with and without airport internet access", 08:07am Oct 11, 2005 CDT.
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I am using dreamhost as my ISP. I am getting killed with spam and the have a script. I found out how to add the script via the rules function, but, how do you store the script in the location you need to retreive it from. there I can't find info. Can someone give me steps please? Do you make a text file, etc?

Select Mail Help from Mail's Help menu. Search for "install apple script."
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Click OK to save the rule.
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Hi
Sorry I am a recently started development in Mac OS, so may be this question is very simple for you guys
actually I am looking to manage Keynote application automatically from Mac Server application, I know apple script is available for lot of functionalities available in keynote but i want that all these things happend without showing anything on GUI , like i want to do all the automation on background without effecting the running GUI of keynote
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depending on what you want to do, this may or may not be possible (most likely not). Applescript works by scripting other applications: some applications are set up do do background tasks, some applications are duplicated by osax or unix utilities that operate invisibly, but most often applescript has to open a document in the application and work on it through the application.
scripting bridge is for cocoa developers: it allows cocoa apps to script other apps. it's not really useful for you unless you want to develop specialized software.
more details would be helpful.

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I have a strange problem... When I try to use this AppleScript to change network location in Leopard, nothing happens:
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That works, thanks!
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OK....
this gmail/mac mail problem caused me a ton of suffering.....but I think I have it figured out....
I think the problem stems from the fact that if you use gmail through a browser and send messages, for example if you are away from your computer, then those sent messages eventually get stored as new conversations. When you return to using your mail app the messages you sent will appear in your inbox as new mail, sent by you.
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After downloading and erasing all these old messages that were causing this case of Mail constipation I went into Mail preferences>>>accounts>>>advanced and clicked the box "remove copy from server after retrieving message" option and then "right away"in the pull down menu. I also clicked the "remove now" button to clear all previously downloaded messages from the server. I noticed on the Mail app that this happened almost immediatly as Mail went about removing all these old messages from the server.
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"A search for Mail AND Gmail in these forums (or a
search for just Gmail restricted to this particular
forum) could have saved you a lot of time and would
have provided you a better understanding of what's
going on (note, it should be "Gmail", not "G-Mail")"
I wonder what the purpose of this reply of yours could be. If it is that something I've said has upset you, I don't know what it could be and I really wouldn't care if it wasn't because your statements could mislead other users into misunderstanding how Gmail actually works. There is nothing in the post that originated this thread that has not already been discussed recently in this forum, except for false assumptions that I'll have to clarify now.
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enter password
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click on email icon
etc.
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Salve!
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