Thanks for the comment! I’ll add this to my list for my next update.

I believe there are a couple of apps that do nothing but email list management (you might want to look on macupdate.com). I’m not sure if these are designed to work with Entourage… However, they should all work with Address Book and as of 2008, you can configure Entourage to sync its contacts with Address Book

Hope this helps!

Best,
-Adam

Can you add this ability to your scripts? I would love it.

Great work!

There is an addin to Outlook that my wife uses called “Send Personally”.
It allows her to send one email to several people with each recipients copy being addressed to them as if each email were sent individually. The only way that I have been able to figure out to do anything similar is to do a mail merge from Word and then send emails from there. This ends up with a look to my emails that is not desirable for my usage.

Do you know of a script that will accomplish the same results in Entourage?

Thanks again!
Michael

Calendar events from contacts… That sounds like a good idea. I’ll put this on my list for version 5!

I’ve actually had a couple people ask me about copying Category and Project properties from incoming messages. I think I might just write the customization code and then take Steve’s suggestion and go open source.

By-the-by, for those of you requesting archival solutions, persistence pays. I finally got a chance to sit down last weekend and hammer something out. To be posted… soon.

Adam

Finally, a reason to quietly put away Outlook for once and for all!!!

Excellent work on this, Adam. The Tasks to Events script absolutely hit the spot. This is really going to save me a great deal of time.

If you post a PayPal link for donations, let me know. It’s worth paying for. Kudos to you for making my day, my week, my year, Adam. For me, not being able to turn tasks into calendar events was a real sore point, since Outlook allowed me to do it with a simple drag-’n'-drop action - presto. Your solution is ingenious.

One minor suggestion: could you possibly create a variant of the “Create Event From Selection” script, where the category from the selected event (say, a task) gets automatically transferred to the new calendar event? That would complete my joy, Adam…

I can see the issues though: you either need a ‘one size fits all’ approach, or come up with a complicated configuration mechanism.

Perhaps the source code is the way to go. It might scare away some folks, but then again someone might pick it up and add a simple/easy config mechanism.

Thanks for the comment. I’ve received a couple of requests along these lines and am actively pursuing a solution for archiving email (and processing attachments) on Entourage.

Stripping attachments from email is a pretty straight-forward process (programming wise). If all you are looking for a a bulk operation to strip and save attachments, I think there might even be a script out there that does this already

I would check on http://scriptbuilders.net/.

If you have other features in particular (or more details about your requirements), please feel free to post them. The more input I can get from users, the quicker I can come up with something that works for everyone involved.

Best,
-Adam

JMTee - good idea! I’d like to to come up with a solution that can accomidate different users’ filing systems, without being cumbersome. I may just have to release the source code… but we’ll see if I can’t come up with something.

Thanks for all the ideas!

Best,
-Adam