From: Chris Gehlker <gehlker@...>
Date: 2002-01-02T01:42:19+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29965] Re: Threading this mailing list in Entourage

On 1/1/02 5:49 AM, "Chris Gehlker" <gehlker@fastq.com> wrote:

> Well, it's not quite done in Ruby yet, but below is some code that will let
> this list thread in Entourage:
> 
> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "]"
> tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
>   set rubyMessages to messages in storage of mailing list �
>       "Ruby" whose subject starts with "["
>   repeat with currentMessage in rubyMessages
>       set theSubject to subject of currentMessage
>       set newSubject to text item 2 of theSubject
>       set the subject of currentMessage to newSubject
>   end repeat
> end tell


Oops! this works better if the first line is:
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "] "
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