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@AUTHOR@ parameter returned empty

January 21, 2011
9:17 am

Sam

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I was wondering if you had any idea why the @AUTHOR@ parameter would be returned empty. I checked the other parameters, and they return properly. I am using Thunderbird 3.1.7.

Sam

January 25, 2011
9:24 am

rkent

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I'm not sure why this is giving you trouble. Perhaps commas or quotes in the real author are interfering somehow with the string? The author field could look like:

"Kent James" <kent@caspia.com>

for example.

This also might be system dependent. Are you running Windows? If so, if you sent me an email from you (to kent@caspia.com) , that you also try to process yourself with a Run File filter action, then perhaps I could test precisely what you are doing. But as a warning, I may not get to it right away, as this is always pain for me to test as I have to setup an external program to run.

rkent

January 25, 2011
1:15 pm

Sam

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Thanks for looking into this issue. I will also send this text in an email message.

For an external testing program, I've been using a batch file with 'mkdir c:\temp\XX_%1' as the contents.

Interestingly I did modify your example Javascript action which did properly extract the author:

for (let index = 0; index < msgHdrs.length; index++)
{
let hdr = msgHdrs.queryElementAt(index, Ci.nsIMsgDBHdr);
hdr.subject = "_"+ hdr.author;
}

Sam

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