Re: Cleaning up the In Box

[AJ]

On 22/11/00 8:19 pm, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 11/21/00 2:08 PM, "Leo Quoyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hello Everyone
>> 
>> This is my first post to this list so here goes...
>> 
>> I was a long time user of Claris Emailer, one of the things I liked about it
>> was the ability to move mail from the In Box to Read Mail once it had been
>> read.
>> 
>> I have created a Rule that will move all Read mail that has not been flagged
>> to a folder called funnily enough Read Mail. The problem is that I have to
>> select all the messages in my In Box and then apply the Rule manually a
>> couple of times a day to clean up my In Box.
>> 
>> I notice that it is possible to schedule an Applescript, knowing almost
>> nothing about Applescript I was wondering if someone might be able to help.
>> Based on my rule all it would have to do is select all the messages in the
>> In Box and the apply the Rule "Move to Read Mail".
>> 
> 
> Not quite right: if you're running it automatically from a schedule, you'll
> want to make sure that you really have read the message before it's moved. If
> it's a brand new unread message in the Inbox, it should just be left there.
> And you can¹ script applying rules, but you can do exactly the same thing by
> script. This script will do what you want:
> 
> tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
>   move (every message of in box folder whose read status is read) to folder
> "Read Mail"
> end tell    
> 
> 
> Paste this into Script Editor, and save it as a compiled script in the
> Entourage Script Menu Items folder in the Microsoft User Data folder in
> Documents folder.(Call it ³Read Messages² or suchlike.) Make a new schedule to
> Run AppleScript, select this script ³Read Messages², and set schedule to
> whatever frequency you want.
> 
> N.B. If by any chance your ³Read Mail² folder is actually a subfolder, you¹ll
> have to show that in the script. For example, if it¹s a subfolder of the
> Inbox, then change the line to:
> 
> 
>    move (every message of in box folder whose read status is read) to folder
> "Read Mail" of folder ³Inbox²
> 

So simple and yet sooo effective! I've really got to start learning this
Apple cript!

Many thanks.

Allan.


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