The stars align … Farewell to Outlook
Now that X1 indexes Thunderbird, I have switched from Outlook, at long last. (I’ve been using TB as my mail client on my laptop for months.) TB has imported all 150,000 msgs from OL and I’ve re-created most of the dozens of message filters I was using in OL. As soon as I figure out how to de-sync my Palm pilot from OL and train its beady eye onto TB, I’ll be almost done.
Just one thing remains…
I wrote a bunch of VBA scripts to help automate some tasks in OL. I’d like to recreate them in TB. But I don’t know the JavaScript that will let me access selected messages in TB. Nor am I sure how to attach JavaScript code to TB in the first place. I’ve had no luck finding documentation about how to do that. (Once I can get at the messages, I’ll be ok writing the little string-handling routines in JS. Probably.) Anyone know of some documentation?
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Why not use ActiveWords to automate some of that stuff? Not sure exactly what you’re doing, but might be easier (and more flexible). I’m sure Buzz will help you out… :)
I’ve just made the switch myself, even if Copernic Desktop Search doesn’t support TB. I don’t know if the tasks you’re talking about involve finding and sorting messages, but the custom views are really powerful. For example, I have views to show only e-mails I haven’t replied to that are a week or a month old.
Does this help?
Tris, I’ve done nothing with views, so it helps to be pointed in that direction. But what I’m trying to do is more programmy than that. E.g., I wrote an OL script that extracts urls from msgs selected in my inbox and preps them for easy plopping into the comment-spamm rebuffer that I use. That sort of thing.
Rick, what I want to do I think requires programmatic access to the inbox. Thanks for the suggestion, though.