Title: Re: Archiving Mailboxes
The script makes a copy of each message in the source folder (hard coded into the script at the moment) on the hard disk in the target folder (also hardcoded in on the first line of the script). These files are saved as .eml files, and are searchable by spotlight. When you find a hit in a spotlight search, you can just double-click on the file found, and it will open in entourage where you can reply to it, forward it or whatever you need to do, just as if you had found the original message in the entourage folder.
I don’t actually save messages as they arrive, although I could do by firing a similar script from a mail rule. However, this would miss mail moved into the folder by manual drag & drop, which would defeat the object so far as I am concerned. I use a schedule to run the script three times a day, first thing in the morning, at lunchtime and last thing before going home (this being a folder for work related mail).
Now there are over a thousand messages in that folder the script takes about a minute to run (61 seconds for the last run). During this period Entourage is quite sluggish and unresponsive, which is why the schedule fires at times I am not likely to be using entourage. Responsiveness of other apps is not affected. I could speed it up in the generic version by removing some of the character substitutions – some of those I have put in are needed because the files on my HD are backed up to a windows server and the routine hiccups over some filenames with illegal windows filename characters. The colon needs to be changed, as that is a mac OS directory delimiter.
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Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
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From: Stephen Rayment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:52:42 -0400
To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Archiving Mailboxes
Thanks a lot Barry!
Not sure I understand from Paul’s description exactly what this is going to do!
“makes a text file of each message as it comes in” – can you clarify?
Regards,
sgr
