Re: Cleaning up the In Box

[Paul Berkowitz]

Title: Re: Cleaning up the In Box

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 can’ 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 “Read Messages” or suchlike.) Make a new schedule to Run AppleScript, select this script “Read Messages”, and set schedule to whatever frequency you want.

N.B. If by any chance your “Read Mail” folder is actually a subfolder, you’ll have to show that in the script. For example, if it’s 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 “Inbox”


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Paul Berkowitz