On Wednesday, 3 September 2003, Charles Watts-Jones, [EMAIL PROTECTED], thoughtfully composed the following:
>I'm trying to perform another Emailer 'trick' - to delete folders/ >subfolders without emptying the mail trash - but can't find a way to make >this happen. > >I like to keep about 10 days of rubbish in my trash just in case I get >hungry or, more likely, have trashed something I find I need to re-read. > So I never 'empty mail trash' but rather run a script (thanks to Peter >Jorgensen) that gets rid of the old stuff. This process however leaves >trashed folders behind. And everything that I've tried still leaves them >untouched. What's to do? It's possible to delete folders with AppleScript - I just tried this: tell app "Powermail" to delete message container "Test" and it worked perfectly, even when the folder contained messages. HTH, Marcus -- Marcus Jarrett Adelaide, South Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED]

