On 28/9/2004 at 8:59 AM I saw Jim Pistrang type:
>>Is there any way to trigger this without my having to actually QUIT
>>powermail. In normal operation I don't quit very often so the trash tends
>>to build up. A background process that ran on a timed basis (every hour,
>>every 6 hours) that performed this function would be nice. Alternatively,
>>a command that would let me do it manually would suffice (I assume the
>>EMPTY TRASH command deletes everything).
>
>I would also like to see this.
If you can use something to schedule AppleScripts to run at an interval,
then you can use the following script. Change the value of days in the
first line to reflect how many days you would like to save. This also
calculates based on the message date, as I haven't be able to try when
they are moved to the trash. [N.B. I have commented out the actual delete
part of the script as I didn't want messages to be deleted without
testing it first. Remove the -- infront of delete theMessage to play with
fire.]
Programs that I used to know of that would do AppleScripts on a schedule
are iDo and perhaps even Cronnix [though I can't profess any ability with
them.] but I use Spark to map it to a function key for quick fire.
<applescript>
set days to 365
tell application "PowerMail"
set messageList to the messages in message container "Mail Trash"
repeat with theMessage in messageList
set messageDate to time sent of theMessage
set messageLable to label of theMessage
if (messageDate < ((current date) - (days * 24 * 3600))) then
set label of theMessage to 3
--delete theMessage
end if
end repeat
end tell
</applescript>
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