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 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�
>
So simple and yet sooo effective! I've really got to start learning this
Apple cript!
Many thanks.
Allan.
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