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- Yadora-nicknames by Andrew Starr (but John Delacour provided the crucial parts
- of the script on how to script Eudora nicknames.)
-
- This is UNSUPPORTED. Please do not e-mail me. You might be able to get help from
- comp.mail.eudora.mac and/or comp.sys.mac.comm (Netiquette: choose one group, the
- other, or do a true cross-post to both. Don't post one message to one group and
- then a separate message to the other.)
-
- Requires:
- YA-Newswatcher 2.4.0
- Eudora (Pro 3.1 or Light 3.1 or above recommended; haven't tested it on 1.x or 2.x)
-
- This script takes the frontmost YA-Newswatcher message and lets you make a
- Eudora nickname from the From: line.
-
- It is not all that fancy, nor error proof, and could mess up your Eudora address books.
- Backup your address book files.
-
- Running Yadora-nicknames:
- 1) Have a Usenet post open
-
- 2) Run the script (put it in your Apple Menu or in OSA Menu, etc.)
-
- 3) First time the script runs, it will ask you to point it to a nickname file.
- This is the nickname file that Yadora-nicknames will add new nicknames to.
- If you use Eudora Pro, you can have additional address book files. For Eudora
- Light you are limited to "Eudora Nicknames" which should be located in the Eudora
- Folder in your System Folder (unless you have moved the Eudora Folder). If you
- use Eudora Pro, the extra nickname files are in a further subdirectory in the
- Eudora Folder in your System Folder (unless you moved the Eudora Folder.)
-
- 4) Enter the nickname you wish to use.
-
- 5) If nickname exists, you can add to it, replace it, or cancel.
-
- 6) Yadora asks you to edit the address into username@domain.xxx form. Actually,
- you could leave it in the form it was in, such as: "username@domain.com (Real Name)"
- and later edit it in Eudora to put "Real Name" in the name field in the address book.
- But this is your chance to edit out any anti-spam parts of the address
- (i.e. "usernameREMOVETHISTOREPLY@domain.com" can be edited to username@domain.com)
-
- Note that you can set YA-Newswatcher to import a particular Eudora address book
- file. It does this every time you start YA-Newswatcher; thus your new nicknames
- (or extra/replacement addresses to existing nicknames) won't be available to
- YA-NW until you next start it. Meanwhile, if you set this option in YA-NW to
- the extra address book file you created in Eudora Pro, or to your main address book
- in Eudora Light, you will truly have a two way address book in YA-NW!
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- Method of resetting nickname file to which it points:
- Run Yadora-nicknames script while you don't have a message open in YA-NW.
- Yadora-nicknames will then ask if you wish to quit or reset the nickname file.
- If you choose reset, Yadora-nicknames will quit, but the next time you run it
- it will let you pick a new nickname file.
-
- If you have multiple users of Eudora on your machine, you should be able to make
- a copy of the Yadora-nicknames script and have it point to a different address book
- file. Make sure Eudora is running under that person's Eudora settings file when
- running their copy of the Yadora-nicknames script so that Eudora can find the
- correct address book file to add nicknames to. (When Yadora-nicknames script asks
- you to find an address book file, it does not store the path; it just gets the
- name.) I have not tried this.
-
- Note: You can fix mistakes in the Eudora address book, or open that file as a text
- file and delete stuff that messes up Eudora.
- (Not Eudora's fault, but the fault of us who mess with the address book files externally!)
-
- WARNING! READ BELOW!
- No warranties, guarantees, etc. Not liable for damages, including but not
- limited to lost profits, lost data, direct of consequential damages of any nature.
-