Comments on: Mail Images

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 06:10:12 +0000

I have been trying to use Automator to send group emails, but the send email functionality doesn’t appear to work. James, the discussion (http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?128@91.ZoJAa1S0ZvD.2@.68ae5c63) to which you refer above is gone. Do I infer that “send email” has never worked? I’m amazed at how difficult it is to find information about automator, especially WRT group emails.

For what it’s worth, here’s my workflow: 1. find groups in address book 2. filter groups in address book 3. group mailer 4. new mail message (has no addressees, as these are supposed to input from #3) 5. send outgoing messages

I’ve tried without #4, with the open outgoing message in Mail, but that doesn’t work. I did succeed once in using the birthday mailer with actions #1 and #2 above, but the emails I want to send are business.

TIA for any insights- Chris

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 00:36:59 +0000

My bad, 1.0.1 is the latest version. I don’t know why you’re having this problem still, it should have been fixed…

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 00:00:59 +0000

I’m running 10.4.2. My Automator is still at version 1.0.1, not 1.1. And I just checked Software Update.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:28:29 +0000

That bug was corrected in Automator 1.1 that installs with OS X 10.4.2 ..if it’s not working still, report to Apple!

By: James

James — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 06:40:46 +0000

Known bug with workaround. My Send Mail now works! From the Apple discussion boards:

This is a documented bug. The work around for now is to set the “Send Outgoing Email” Action to Ignore Results from Previous Action under the Mail Messages disclosure triangle.

It is discussed in more detail here: http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?128@91.ZoJAa1S0ZvD.2@.68ae5c63

By: James

James — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 05:57:41 +0000

I’d also love for the Send Mail to actually send mail. Do you really think that Apple deliberately broke it to prevent spam? Then what is the point of having a ‘Send Mail’ task at all?

It is simply broken IMO, and unless enough people complain directly to Apple, it will not be fixed for a long time.

By: Scott Moschella

Scott Moschella — Mon, 09 May 2005 03:36:03 +0000

I’ve reported these bugs to Apple. Hopefully they’ll do something soon to fix them. I was hoping to use some complicated (and circuitous) Automator functions for a project for work. The whole thing hinges on Mail, though. I’ll keep my fingers crossed. And in the meantime, I’ll have to brush up on my Applescript.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Fri, 06 May 2005 11:35:33 +0000

No, combine messages, send outgoing messages and a couple others don’t work for me either… it’s a shame too because they’re the easiest way to quickly get data from one computer to another.