Wayne Brissette on 3/16/04 said >Adam de Zoete [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 stated: > > >>Hi all, >> >>Thanks for the comments. I've just tried the "Set Status to Sent" script, >>but it seems to only convert a message that is currently a Draft (i.e. >>not Read status). >> >>I'm probably going to have to experiment with redirecting, unless anyone >>knows whether it can be done through different Applescript. >> >>I've got thousands of messages to convert, so I was hoping redirection >>would be a last resort. >> >>Many thanks, >> >>Adam > > >Try this: > > tell application "PowerMail" > set MyMessage to current messages > repeat with i in MyMessage > set TheStatus to (status of i) > if TheStatus is read then > try > set (status of i) to sent > end try > end if > end repeat > end tell > > >I tried to test this, but the best I could do was set sent messages to >draft, and draft to sent. There is something special about messages and >how PowerMail determines what has been read and not read, draft and sent, >etc. And it doesn't seem to want to let you pick a status randomly.
If you try to change something in a message you have received, it says, something like this is a received message, and gives the opportunity to copy it. Then when you duplicate the message you have the opportunity to save it as a draft. Could this be incorporated into an applescript? The trouble is that it seems you can't just copy the message, but that some change needs to be attempted within it before you get this question. But once the change is attempted, the message is duplicated, and you attempt to close it, you do get an option to save as draft; which then could be changed to sent. -- Barbara Needham
