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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Att:Jolly Roger Re: A program to show all Mac Mail Rules?
Date: 22 Dec 2014 06:17:34 GMT
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On 2014-12-20, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Okay, that's a spreadsheet containing only the conditions for one single
> rule. What about all the other properties the script is already
> outputting? Where do they go? Also, what about the other rules with
> different conditions? If you have, say, twelve rules, each with a
> completely different number and type of conditions, how will you present
> that in a single spreadsheet? Or were you perhaps thinking that each
> rule would have its own spreadsheet? Either way, you need to define it
> before coding it. If you really want to understand the problem, do this
> exercise: make a new spreadsheet to hold your rules, add a column for
> each and every rule property you want to track, and then manually fill
> it in with a couple different rules with a different set of conditions
> for each rule. If you can show me what you want, I'll be happy to modify
> the script accordingly for you. : )

I had some time to think about this tonight and came up with one
potential solution. The modified script outputs one "All Rules" master
list containing a list of all rules and their properties except the
conditions. Then for each rule, the script creates another "Rule n
Conditions" file - one for each rule, containing a list of all
conditions for a given rule. So you end up with something like this:

All Rules.csv
Rule 1 Conditions.csv
Rule 2 Conditions.csv
Rule 3 Conditions.csv
Rule 4 Conditions.csv
Rule 5 Conditions.csv 
...and so on

<http://jollyroger.kicks-ass.org/software/Export%20Mail%20Rules.zip>

Enjoy. : )

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