*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* On Tue, Jun 17, 2003, cheshirekat said:
> >On Tue, Jun 17, 2003, Andy Fragen [EMAIL PROTECTED], invoked powers >within the internet realm, to proclaim ... > >> >>On Tue, Jun 17, 2003, Larry Samberg said: >> >>>On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:06:09 -0700 Andy Fragen wrote: >>> >>>>If you don't want something to be >>>>trashed then don't put it in the trash. >>> >>>That was profound :) >>> >>>If I could eliminate all of my mistakes that easily I wouldn't have to >>>work any more... >> >>I wasn't really trying to be profound. I just don't know of any email >>program that adds a "time message moved to another folder" option. If any >>of them did it would be a simple scripting change. >> >>Unfortunately the only solution is behaviour modification. Don't set PM >>up to delete the trash and don't use any other script to delete your >>trash. You may set up a script that will give you a small electrical >>impulse through your keyboard if your trash does empty. This may aid in >>retraining. ;) > >I was just wondering if anyone has thought of using an AppleScript that >deleted messages based on their labels. I have used a similar message as this: [stuff deleted] >I haven't tried, so I don't know if it is possible to have the script >check messages in a specific folder, instead of messages that are >selected by the user. I imagine one could use labels for each week in the >month, then have the script methodically delete messages of a specific >week, on a weekly routine, or as activated by the user. But, that would >be one option. I'm still new to OS X and PowerMail, so I haven't created >too many scripts, yet. I've always liked using labels to provide extended >"categories" for messages and other objects. (I'm hopelessly lost in the >OS X finder, but not lost enough to use a hack or shareware to get the >feature I enjoyed so much before OS X.) > >Another thought I had, is to create a dated folder for messages to go >into. Meaning, the name of the folder is a specific date which an >AppleScript would check against the user's preferences. I think this >option would make a lot of folders to deal with. Unfortunately this still has the problem of deleting something that is in a place where messages will be deleted. You could alternatively label these daily folders as Trash 1, Trash 2, etc. Don't get me wrong I think what you've described is a very valid approach. You could also set up the Delete Aged Messages script to delete one folder for all messages over 7 days. That should accomplish pretty much the same thing. Using labels to extend PM is great, I've actually written a script to archive labeled messages to an Archive folder. Unfortunately PM suffers from a problem. There is no way to access a message that is not visible, except if it's in the Mail Trash and you empty trash from the menu or at quit. Of course, maybe that's the solution to the problem -- out of sight, out of mind. Use the General prefs to file read messages in a Read Messages folder and set the folder's view to "View Unread Only". It's not a perfect solution but... I will also state that if you have a folder that has view unread only and it is listed as one of the folders for the Delete Aged Messages script to run any messages that are not visible, all the read ones, will not be deleted. I know this because I've tried to have these ones deleted as well but there is no scripting argument that stipulates a message's status as unread or read. -- Andy Fragen
