Hi folks,

After recent discussion with Jeff following on from some recent performance issues I've had, I've decided to post some stuff here about how to set up Purify & Mail.app for the new (as of v2.1.9) Applescript method. This forum decided a long time ago that I talk so much I must be an "hsc guru". As a self-taught semi-geek who knows zip about a heap of stuff that real geeks prattle on about, I nearly choked with laughter at such an epithet. (If you knew me you'd choke too.)

However on this occasion I guess I'll momentarily assert the guru status, sufficiently to say with due humility that Jeff's wording of how to do this new setup .. er um .. leaves a little to be desired for clarity. [Hope I put that with due deference, Jeff ... ? ]

The addendum recently added to the Purify manual explains (p56) how to set things up for the new method, thusly:


The problem, let me suggest, is with the sentence in bold, which unintentionally confuses the unwary (especially non-geeks) no end!

I'll now stop prattling and post below my suggested revision of Jeff's 'Step 1':


Step 2 then still stands as is.

Humbly submitted in the hope of preventing misery for one or more other poor souls. I shall now remove the guru robe (sitting cross-legged nearly killed me, and incense makes me sneeze), and retreat to the shadows of my normal side-splitting geek ignorance.

ha ha! Well done Lance! You've brilliantly spelled this out in plain English.

Oy Lance!

I'm about to publish the update to Purify, including some minor work on the user manual. Your change made it in, thanks!

It sure is hard to be humble when you're an hsc guru ...

A further pearl from the guru ...

Jeff, having now scanned the updated manual with it's inclusion of my humbly enlightened interpolation ... I would add that you really need to restructure the manual so I can gather more disciples No, seriously .. the instructions for the AS method need to be incorporated in the main body of the manual (in the accounts panel configuration section). Leaving it in a section at the end titled 'addendum' is likely to mean the average user will either miss it or ignore it. (And then the world would be the poorer for the lack of mystical enlightenment ..... )

Yeah, I'm hip. The Mac version of the manual still needs a dose of TLC.

Well I'm glad you see it that way. I wouldn't want to be delayed in the funding of my Himalayan palace with its fleet of gold-plated Rolls Royces, serving a tax haven from the pockets of the 'enlightened'. We gurus need to make a living somehow ...