Re: Send Complex HTML X 2.04 (Problem w Groups)

The script does send to groups. I'm assuming you're starting out with a new
message window open in the front?

There are just two ways I know of that you'd get that error after entering a
group name in the To address box and then running the script:

1) You don't actually have a group of that exact name. To be safe, start
typing a couple of letters and then select the auto-completion. The Group
should appear in the box with a "double-blob" icon. Does it? You sure the
name of the group isn't just "Test" or something other than "Test Group"?

OR:

2) You have an Exchange account, and it's your default mail account, but the
group is located in your local address book "On My Computer"*. Entourage
11.2 (SR 2) changed the rules. AppleScripts looking just for a 'contact' or
a 'group' will only find it if it's in the address book associated with the
default mail account. If the default account is Exchange, it only finds
contacts in the Exchange address book. If the default mail account is POP or
IMAP, it only finds contacts and groups in the local address book. If this
is the problem, you'd get a similar error if you entered a local contact in
the To box as well. The workaround for this problem is currently to set your
default mail account (Tools/Accounts/Mail) to the appropriate account before
running the script.


(* or both vice versa - but don't do that. Groups created in Entourage on
Exchange address books will be lost when the Exchange cache is refreshed.)

>
> Now, I solved almost all problems (or at least found acceptable workarounds
> any way) BUT, (again...) I noticed that launching the script from the
> address book (using "Execute Script") results in sending out e-mails with
> blank "To:" fields. In other words no recipient. I am very concerned that
> this may result in my e-mails being filtered out by spam filters if there is
> no name in the recipient field.
>
> Oddly, if I do a test, addressing a new e-mail to the group, but do not run
> the script (just send plain text instead of complex HTML) the e-mails arrive
> with the name of the group in the "To:" field. This would work just fine
> (but I really, really wish I could put the recipient's name on each e-mail,
> but hide the other people in the group).

When you have checked "Do not show addresses when sending mail" in the
group's box, then Entourage actually BCC's all the recipients and puts the
group's name, but the recipient's email address in the "To" field, in the
message each recipient actually gets. I really doubt that any spam filter
cares about display names - they only care about the email address here.
People can omit display names, or have any display name, it makes no
difference. Make yourself one of the group members, send to the group, and
check the message you receive. When you send from the address book the To
field no says "<undisclosed-recipients: ;>" . which is what many email
clients, including Outlook on Windows, do. (I'm actually amazed to see it
here when sent from Entourage.) I very much doubt if spam filters care
what's in the To field.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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> From: Robert Easey <reasey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:05:18 -0600
> Conversation: Send Complex HTML X 2.04 (Problem w Groups)
> Subject: Send Complex HTML X 2.04 (Problem w Groups)
>
> I downloaded Paul Berkowitz's (fantastic) "Send Complex HTML X 2.04" script
> which allows you to create HTML files outside of Entourage and send them
> successfully with Entourage. It really was just what I was looking for. I
> thank him for making this available!
>
> I thought this script was perfect (and it was on my tests) until I tried to
> send to a group. When I try to send to a group I get this error: "Microsoft
> Entourage got an error: Can't get group 1 whose name of it = "Test Group". "
>
> I noticed the Read Me file mentions that you CAN send to groups, but this
> was not the case for me. [using Entourage 2004 v11.2.1 and Mac OS 10.3.9
> with Exchange 2003].
>
> I tried to find a workaround and discovered that if I select the group in
> the address book, then choose "Execute Script" it works, no error, e-mail
> sent.
>
> O.K. This works BUT (there's always a but...) this method does not allow me
> to add a subject to the e-mail and unfortunately it automatically picks up
> the name of the file and uses that as the subject (not what I want). I tried
> re-naming the HTML file (to match the subject that I want) and that works
> BUT (again a but...) it also appends ".htm" to the end of the new file name
> and places that in the subject of the e-mail.
>
> Again I discovered a work-around for this problem and that was to open the
> HTML file in IE and then use the script's choice of attaching a web page
> displayed in IE instead of pointing to the file. This does indeed pick up
> the "Title" of the HTML doc (not the file name).
>
> Now, I solved almost all problems (or at least found acceptable workarounds
> any way) BUT, (again...) I noticed that launching the script from the
> address book (using "Execute Script") results in sending out e-mails with
> blank "To:" fields. In other words no recipient. I am very concerned that
> this may result in my e-mails being filtered out by spam filters if there is
> no name in the recipient field.
>
> Oddly, if I do a test, addressing a new e-mail to the group, but do not run
> the script (just send plain text instead of complex HTML) the e-mails arrive
> with the name of the group in the "To:" field. This would work just fine
> (but I really, really wish I could put the recipient's name on each e-mail,
> but hide the other people in the group).
>
> Again, I want to thank Paul Berkowitz for this excellent script. If anyone
> can help me with the two "issues" (1. Error when sending to a group & 2.
> blank TO: fields ) I would be eternally grateful.
>

.

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