2/01/04 Jean-Pierre Smith :
>>>(Now that I leave the
>>>G4 and [EMAIL PROTECTED] running 24/7 I have to remember to delete "deleted"
>>>messages manually... don't see an option to have this done automagically
>>>on a "timed" basis.)
>>
>>It is time-based if you choose so, but only occurs when closing Emailer.
>>To do the same without closing Emailer, you need a script that would
>>delete messages based on their age, either when you say so (you'd have to
>>trigger the script), or on schedule (set an Emailer schedule to launch
>>the script at timed intervals).
>>
>>I saw a script like that someday, I believe it was dedicated to remove
>>old emailer auto-reports.
>>Maybe someone else remembers its name, or I could write one.
>
>I guess you just need a script and a schedule, preferably a script which
>does not return to you a message since it needs to work unattended. I
>would use "trash Deleted Mail" from Eric Thauvin (1997) and run it from a
>schedule. Note that Trash Deleted Mail returns to you a message when the
>deleted mail folder is empty !
I don't have "trash Deleted Mail", but I found the one I was refering
to:"Age Logs" by Brian Caldwell.
>From its description:
-- deletes logs containing all deleted messages;
-- deletes logs older than a user-specified number of days;
-- changes priority on un-deleted logs based on relative number of days,
e.g.
-- today - 1 day assigned priority 2,
-- today - 2 days assigned priority 3,
-- today - 3 days assigned priority 4...
It has editable properties to choose the age of messages to keep and to
display feedback or not. It would be easily modified to process deleted
mail instead of logs (or both).
When scripting that kind of thing, remember that the script won't support
localized versions of Emailer if it refers to folders by name. Use the
following references instead of the folder names that appear in your
version:
in box folder reference to the In Box folder
out box folder reference to the Out Box folder
sent mail folder reference to the Sent Mail folder
deleted mail folder reference to the Deleted Mail folder
read mail folder reference to the Read Mail folder
log folder reference to the log folder
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VRic
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