Hello AHK'ers - and it seems Tank needs to be tHanked, though I'm new today and have no real understanding of what has transpired and apparently caused much distress. I trust that is largely over, now.
I've done quite a lot of programming on IBM machines and PCs, plus script writing, but am by no means an expert. In fact I'm a bit rusty.
I have a nice fast home-built PC running Win-8 64-bit etc.
I need to automate some operations within Thunderbird, along these lines:
- When an email comes into a given folder (from a filter responding to in incoming email),
- Pull some info out of it,
- Activate a given template (based on the info pulled)
- Send a new email based on that template to a recipient (based on info pulled).
- The template will include a PDF that I need the recipient to receive.
I'm totally new to AHK and have read the initial blurb but still have no idea if it can do what I need.
Could someone please tell me if this is (a) possible, (b) practical? If so, some pointers as to how to do it would be most appreciated.
Thx mucho! Actually very mucho, as success here is critically important to me.
Thunderbird automation
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Thunderbird automation
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Re: Thunderbird automation
I split and edited this message, it was one month ago without a reply on a wrong section, it is a mistery, if you have answer then try with a private message to alert, or post here solution or suggestion for a futur same search...
Re: Thunderbird automation
the mozilla products are almost impossible to automate outside of mouse curser and imagesearch means. its not even a window to AHK its a picture of a window.
maybe switch to IE for automation or check out this if you are stuck to Gecko's
http://docs.seleniumhq.org/docs/01_intr ... plications
maybe switch to IE for automation or check out this if you are stuck to Gecko's
http://docs.seleniumhq.org/docs/01_intr ... plications
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Re: Thunderbird automation
reaally!? thats interesting...
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Re: Thunderbird automation
I'm a rank newbie to AutoHotkey but after looking at a few other alternatives, it seems like it's a best-bet. I too have been trying to work with Thunderbird; it's a real pain and it's nice to know I'm not alone.
I can get the program to open, cursor down to the wanted account, but I can't figure how to get the caret over to the actual messages, or if I do place it there, then using AutoHK doesn't seem to be able to send it CTRL-A, C or CTRL V. Operating the keyboard keys for all of TB leaves a lot to be desired. Or, it's my ignorance. If I have any success I'll come back and look for this thread.
I can get the program to open, cursor down to the wanted account, but I can't figure how to get the caret over to the actual messages, or if I do place it there, then using AutoHK doesn't seem to be able to send it CTRL-A, C or CTRL V. Operating the keyboard keys for all of TB leaves a lot to be desired. Or, it's my ignorance. If I have any success I'll come back and look for this thread.
Windows 7 Home Premium; AHK v1.1.13.01; Do Websites in HTML4 & 5, CSS3, PHP 5.5; Looking for automation of processes.
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