Topic: Wildfile & e-email (1 of 4), Read 16 times
Conf: VEDIT Beta Test
From: Ian Binnie
Date: Thursday, March 09, 2006 05:45 AM

VEDIT (32-Bit) Ver. 6.15.1 02/01/06
(As an aside it is probably appropriate for Vedit, with customers outside the US - even Canada uses a different date format, to use ISO 8601 date formats.)

I was trying to use e-email.vdm with wildfile.

This failed with:-
MACRO ERROR in 11
CANNOT MODIFY EXECUTING MACRO

The first file had been loaded.

I looked through the code, and would have expected a prompt for destination filename, but this never happened.

I am at a loss to see why. It is difficult to debug anything launched from wildfile - it does too good a job of tidying up.
I changed the use of register 11, but this made no difference.

I was rather surprised to see the Last change: 10/18/98

 

Topic: Re: Wildfile & e-email (2 of 4), Read 15 times
Conf: VEDIT Beta Test
From: Ted Green
Date: Thursday, March 09, 2006 09:43 AM

At 05:45 AM 3/9/2006, you wrote:
>VEDIT (32-Bit) Ver. 6.15.1 02/01/06
>(As an aside it is probably appropriate for Vedit, with customers outside the US - even Canada uses a different date format, to use ISO 8601 date formats.)
>
>I was trying to use e-email.vdm with wildfile.
>
>This failed with:-
>MACRO ERROR in 11
>CANNOT MODIFY EXECUTING MACRO

Ian:

Complex macros have to be written explicitly to work with Wildfile; this has not been done with Sendemail.vdm.

I will file this under Bugs, but I cannot promise to get it fixed soon.

Ted.

 

Topic: Re: Wildfile & e-email (3 of 4), Read 15 times
Conf: VEDIT Beta Test
From: Christian Ziemski
Date: Thursday, March 09, 2006 09:47 AM

On 3/9/2006 9:43:30 AM, Ted Green wrote:
>At 05:45 AM 3/9/2006, you wrote:
>>VEDIT (32-Bit) Ver. 6.15.1 02/01/06
>>
>>I was trying to use e-email.vdm with wildfile.
>>
>>This failed with:-
>>MACRO ERROR in 11
>>CANNOT MODIFY EXECUTING MACRO
>
>Ian:
>
>Complex macros have to be written explicitly to work
>with Wildfile; this has not been done with Sendemail.vdm.
>
>I will file this under Bugs, but I cannot promise to get it fixed soon.


I'm not sure, but there seems to be a misunderstanding:

- Ian wrote about the old e-email (extracting) macro
- Ted wrote about the very new sendemail macro


Christian

 

Topic: Re: Wildfile & e-email (4 of 4), Read 12 times, 1 File Attachment
Conf: VEDIT Beta Test
From: Ian Binnie
Date: Monday, March 13, 2006 02:39 AM

I have written my own email extracting program EmailSender.vdm

This Extract Display-Names as well as e-mail Addresses.

This macro works in conjunction with the Wildfile macro, but does not prompt for output filename and outputs to a file in the default directory.

This macro should work with any MIME Email files (I use Thunderbird).

My first attempt produced some strange names, I determined these were coming from attachments & forwarded email, so I added code to skip the body of multipart MIME (forwarded addresses in plain text in the body of the email will still be found).

I would like to add some filtering to only extract emails sent To: or Cc: to me, and exclude Bcc: mail.

  EMAILSENDER.VDM (5KB)