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Announce incoming Mail message senders
Authored by: Nobody Special on Tue, Jan 29 2008 at 8:14AM PST

If I wanted the script to announce the name of the sender and subject of the message, how would I modify the script? Thanks.

Announce incoming Mail message senders
Authored by: bradbeattie on Tue, Jan 29 2008 at 8:24AM PST

set senderName to (extract name from sender of newMessage)
set sentSubject to (extract subject from newMessage)
say "You've just received an email from " & senderName
say sentSubject

Or, y'know, something like that.

Announce incoming Mail message senders
Authored by: Nobody Special on Tue, Jan 29 2008 at 8:43AM PST

I tried it and receive an error message when compiling: "Syntax Error: Expected "," but found property."