On 8/18/06 6:57 AM, "Kenneth Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Colleagues,
>
> I have many successful rules that move my email from my Exchange Server
> (that I access through Imap) to folders on my hard drive - but the rule also
> moves the original message to the Deleted Items folder where they appear
> unread. Is there a rule I can set to make everything in this folder appear
> 'read'?
Not unless you also have the local copies marked read too.* The rule refers
to "moving" the messages, which is how people prefer to think about it. But
you can't actually move a server message to local folder - what happens is
that it is copied, and the original deleted, as you realize. But because the
rule blurs the distinction between original and copy, for ease of use,
there's no way to distinguish between them for read status either. The rule
does whatever you ask of it, and only then does the copy-and-delete as final
step. So if you change the category, set status to Read, etc. it does that
on the original before copying ("moving").
*The only way you could do this is by AppleScript. Instead of setting the
rule to move the message, set it to Run AppleScript, and to this script
(first saved in Script Editor, to the Entourage Script Menu Items folder in
Microsoft User Data folder):
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set theMsg to item 1 of (get current messages)
duplicate theMsg to folder "Whatever"
set read status of theMsg to read
delete theMsg
end tell
Note: 'folder "Whatever" ' (by name) is how you refer to top-level local
folders (On My Computer). For subfolders, you do it this way:
folder "Whatever" of folder "Inbox"
or
folder "Sub sub" of folder "Sub" of folder "Whatever"
etc.
The trouble is that AppleScript on IMAP is still subject to immense
slowdowns as it seems to have to wait forever to get through to the server.
Maybe this would work better without LiveSync. When I tested the above, it
timed out several times, while other times finished in a flash. I don't
think I'd go for this.
OK, just a question here: why do you care if Deleted Items shows unread
messages, since you won't care about them anyway? Perhaps you keep the IMAP
folders closed and depend on the boldness of the main server icon to tell
you when you have new messages? If instead you expand your moving of IMAP
messages to local folders such that any IMAP message that doesn't meet the
criteria for being moved to special local folders should get moved to the
local Inbox. You'd do that by making such a Rule for <All Messages> and
positioning it at the bottom of the IMAP Rules list, after all the other
messages that move messages to the special folders. (You'll have noticed
that any rule that moves messages enforces the "Do not apply other rules to
these messages" box, so make sure you position any rules that just apply
categories or anything other than moving are listed at the top of the Rules
list, with that "Do not apply other rules" box _unchecked_. - disabled.)
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Paul Berkowitz
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