ixium Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 Good Morning, I have been working on my workflow recently with trello and a co worker, I have to constantly forward emails to them, I have two instances of my hotkey forward, which forwards the selected email to my coworker and one that forwards the message to my trello board to keep it as a to do item. I have a workflow I made with some apple script I found that forwards the email in an ok fashion (not great) but the problem is it adds my signature so my trello board is now filled with my company logo, not very pretty. I have turned off the setting for adding the signature to quoted text but it still pops up in the forward. So my question is, can someone give me a more elegant way to do this, or just help me tweak my code to make sure no signature is selected. I have created a blank signature title "none" I just dont know how to select it. here is the code I am using now ___________________________________________________ on alfred_script(q) set myComment to "xxxx@boards.trello.com" set theName to "Some name" set theAddress to "Some email address" try set the clipboard to myComment tell application "Mail" set theSelection to selection set theForwardedMessage to forward (item 1 of theSelection) with opening window tell theForwardedMessage make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties {name:theName, address:theAddress} end tell activate tell application "System Events" to keystroke "v" using {command down} delay 1 send theForwardedMessage end tell end try end alfred_script ___________________________________________________ thank you so much for anyone that can help! Link to comment
dfay Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 Mail Act-On (a mail plug-in) rules can strip a signature. I believe they use AppleScript (sorry on my phone right now...) so it should be possible. Link to comment
dfay Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 (edited) It looks to me like this is a bug in AppleScript (on Sierra at least). I tried a handful of Mail signature creation scripts and experimented with yours and none of them are working. See also https://gist.github.com/Moligaloo/3850710 . With Sal gone I fear it may never get fixed. But....Mail Act-On Outbox rules do work, so presumably they're accessing the signature some other way. It's $30 but if you work with a lot of email it's worth it IMHO. Edited March 26, 2017 by dfay Link to comment
dfay Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 Just looked a little more and found a workaround: http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=45184 Link to comment
ixium Posted March 27, 2017 Author Share Posted March 27, 2017 Thank you for looking into that for me, I dont know enough about this stuff to implement it corectly, where would I put this code in my code? new code try set message signature of new_message to signature mySignature on error --BUG SIERRA tell application "Mail" to activate tell application "System Events" tell process "Mail" click pop up button 1 of window 1 delay 0.1 keystroke "g" --put here the first letter of the name of your signature delay 0.1 keystroke return delay 0.1 end tell end tell end try My code on alfred_script(q) set myComment to "xxxx@boards.trello.com"set theName to "Some name"set theAddress to "Some email address" try set the clipboard to myComment tell application "Mail" set theSelection to selection set theForwardedMessage to forward (item 1 of theSelection) with opening window tell theForwardedMessage make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties {name:theName, address:theAddress} end tell activate tell application "System Events" to keystroke "v" using {command down} delay 1 send theForwardedMessage end tellend tryend alfred_script Link to comment
dfay Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 (edited) set myComment to "xxxx@boards.trello.com" set theName to "Some name" set theAddress to "Some email address" set mySignature to "blank" try set the clipboard to myComment tell application "Mail" set theSelection to selection set theForwardedMessage to forward (item 1 of theSelection) with opening window tell theForwardedMessage make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties {name:theName, address:theAddress} end tell activate tell application "System Events" to keystroke "v" using {command down} delay 1 try set message signature of theForwardedMessage to signature mySignature on error --BUG SIERRA tell application "Mail" to activate tell application "System Events" tell process "Mail" click pop up button 4 of window 1 delay 0.1 keystroke "b" --put here the first letter of the name of your signature delay 0.1 keystroke return delay 0.1 end tell end tell end try -- send theForwardedMessage end tell end try this worked for me (commented out the send for testing) this requires that you have a signature called "blank" that's active in the sending account Edited March 28, 2017 by dfay Link to comment
ixium Posted March 28, 2017 Author Share Posted March 28, 2017 Thank you so much for your help so far, I am having no luck with this, I have set up blank signatures on all accounts, now when I hit the hotkey it puts the correct address in the sender but then just sits there and does not continue forward any ideas? Link to comment
dfay Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 If you look at the debugger are you getting messages there? (See https://www.alfredapp.com/help/workflows/advanced/debugger/ ) Link to comment
ixium Posted March 28, 2017 Author Share Posted March 28, 2017 Nothing coming up in there after trying it, it inputs the right email address but then does nothing, you confirmed this working on your end? Link to comment
ixium Posted March 28, 2017 Author Share Posted March 28, 2017 im on sierra 10.12.3 mail is 10.2 (3259) Link to comment
dfay Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 (edited) Hmm. I did the 10.12.4 upgrade last night and now it needs to click pop up button 5 instead of 4 ... don't notice what changed in the UI but something must have. You may need to do some trial and error to get the correct pop up button # -- I use Mail Add-On and MailTags which modify the Mail window, so the # of the button may be different in your case. Such are the perils of being forced to use UI scripting. It may be an issue with the way Alfred calls scripts, and the handling of subprocesses / System Events therein. It's working for me with a Run Script > osascript (AS) > input as {query} object in the workflow. But...I just checked and it works as Run NSApplescript as well. Here's the exact code I am using with Run NSApplescript: on alfred_script(q) set theQuery to q set myComment to "xxxx@boards.trello.com" set theName to "Some name" set theAddress to "Some email address" set mySignature to "blank" try set the clipboard to myComment tell application "Mail" set theSelection to selection set theForwardedMessage to forward (item 1 of theSelection) with opening window tell theForwardedMessage make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties {name:theName, address:theAddress} end tell activate tell application "System Events" to keystroke "v" using {command down} delay 1 try set message signature of theForwardedMessage to signature mySignature on error --BUG SIERRA tell application "Mail" to activate tell application "System Events" tell process "Mail" click pop up button 5 of window 1 delay 0.1 keystroke "b" --put here the first letter of the name of your signature delay 0.1 keystroke return delay 0.1 end tell end tell end try -- send theForwardedMessage end tell end try return theQuery end alfred_script Edited March 28, 2017 by dfay Link to comment
ixium Posted March 30, 2017 Author Share Posted March 30, 2017 Still having no luck with this, no errors kicking out, I dont know how to find the popup window is is supposed to be clicking, I do have the accessibility inspector but I dont know how to use it to find the numbers I need I dont want to keep bothering you with this, so thank you so much for your help so far, I will just have to manualy delete the signature for now, not too big of a deal Thank you again for all the help youve put into this over the past few days! Link to comment
dfay Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Good luck! I find the script here more useful than Accessibility Inspector: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20111208191312748 Link to comment
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