[bigtoe]

Originally Posted by rcgottlieb

...I'd like to find a way to have the email (or more importantly the actual task) go directly into OF.

I made this work last night with OmniFocus 1.5 via Mail.app. I enabled email notification on reqall, then in OmniFocus Preferences->Mail enabled the "Add Mail Rule..." and added reqall@reqall.com as an "Allowed From Address".



Then, in Mail.app Preferences->Rules I modified the rule OmniFocus created so that if From Contains reqall@reqall.com the actions are performed.



That's it, new reqall items are added to your OmniFocus inbox whenever you check your mail. It would be nice to be able to set the context and project directly based on the reqall message, I'm going to look into that later.

I haven't tried, but I'm pretty sure you could make this work in Entourage or any other email app which can trigger AppleScripts from Rules/Actions.

Slightly better walkthrough on my blog here:

http://web.me.com/christopherhulett/...ia_Reqall.html

Cheers!

[bigtoe]

note- this also makes inbox items whenever Reqall sends any message to me. It would be trivial to modify the Mail.app rule to exclude these, should they get in the habit of sending lots of junk...

[Buckaroo]

What AppleScript are you using in the mail rule? It's cut off of the image you posted ....

Steve

[bigtoe]

Originally Posted by Buckaroo

What AppleScript are you using in the mail rule? It's cut off of the image you posted ....

Steve

The script provided by Omni. When you check the "Add mail rule..." box in OmniFocus' prefs it automatically adds the script.

If you want to add it manually the full path is /Applications/OmniFocus.app/Contents/Resources/MailAction.applescript

[Buckaroo]

Got it! Thanks ...

Steve

[whshep]

This doesn't work for me. The script doesn't seem to do anything.

My Reqall subjects always seem to start with "Added:" not "reqall@reqall.com.

[bigtoe]

Originally Posted by whshep

This doesn't work for me. The script doesn't seem to do anything.

My Reqall subjects always seem to start with "Added:" not "reqall@reqall.com.

You need to change the conditions for the rule to "From" "Contains". It seems you still have the default setting that OmniFocus uses when it creates the rule.

This does look a little bit confusing based on the "Add Mail Rule" GUI in OmniGraffle, which does not allow you to base the rule on anything but the "+ before @" or "subject begins with" options. If you use either option, then change it in Mail.app's preferences as described above it should work.

[pavementlook]

Originally Posted by bigtoe

I made this work last night with OmniFocus 1.5 via Mail.app. I enabled email notification on reqall, then in OmniFocus Preferences->Mail enabled the "Add Mail Rule..." and added reqall@reqall.com as an "Allowed From Address".



Then, in Mail.app Preferences->Rules I modified the rule OmniFocus created so that if From Contains reqall@reqall.com the actions are performed.



That's it, new reqall items are added to your OmniFocus inbox whenever you check your mail. It would be nice to be able to set the context and project directly based on the reqall message, I'm going to look into that later.

I haven't tried, but I'm pretty sure you could make this work in Entourage or any other email app which can trigger AppleScripts from Rules/Actions.

Slightly better walkthrough on my blog here:

http://web.me.com/christopherhulett/...ia_Reqall.html

Cheers!

Thank you so much! I got it to work! Thanks much

[jchiar]

I know this is an old thread, but I am having issues with the above mentioned script. Anyone have this working still?