On or near 8/23/04 9:09 AM, Jeremy Reichman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > Here's my purpose: I'd like to archive messages (from Sent Items, in > particular) that are older than n days to a local folder. > > This could be done by having a schedule call a rule. However, there's no > connection between the two in the Schedule Editor UI. And I don't think > there's a way to have an AppleScript run a rule; I don't see "rule" in the > Entourage dictionary. > > So the only solution I can think of right now is to run a schedule that > executes a script and iterates through the messages in Sent Items (server > side), figures out their age, and takes the action to move the ones that > match. > > However, I seem to run across a problem with "move," as well ... it doesn't > seem to want to actually move on-line messages to local folders. I've also > tried "set storage to" for the message and that doesn't appear to work, > either. > > Any ideas on how to proceed? I'm all ears ... thanks!
I've written a pair of scripts that will archive folders, selecting messages by age, with the option of omitting flagged and/or unread messages. They present a list of your folders, let you select a set to archive, and remember that selection. You can change it at any time by running a separate preferences script; in fact, you must run it to refresh the folder list if you add or delete folders. The messages are saved, each Entourage folder in its own dated Finder folder, as separate message (.eml) files, just as if you'd separately dragged them to the desktop. To read these back into Entourage, you need only double-click them in Finder. By the way, these files are basically plain text, include encoded attachments, and when Tiger comes out, they will be indexed and searchable by the Spotlight feature. I'm planning to make these scripts available as shareware for a very nominal fee. If you would be interested in purchasing these scripts for, say, $10, let me know off list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I still have to set them up with registration code stuff so I can't deliver them at once, but if a number of you are interested, it will motivate me to get it done more quickly. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
