Mail 3.0 Archive Script

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#1

Someone wrote an Archive Script for Tiger that would run as a rule in Mail, applied on all incoming mail. It would copy the email and move it to a Mailbox titled, ‘Archive’. If the ‘Archive’ mailbox didn’t exist it would create it. The script doesn’t work in Tiger, and I cannot open it to edit in Script Editor, it was saved as run-only.

Has anyone released an auto-archive Mail script-rule for Mail in Leopard? Is anyone able to do this? I would gladly pay for such a script, as it fills a huge hole in Mail.

I know of Andreas’s Archive scripts, but they require manual archiving: http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/index.html

Thanks for listening!

#2

Hi,

for your purpose there is no script needed.
Define the following rule:

If any of the following conditions are met:
Every message
Perform the folowing actions:
Copy Message to mailbox: Archive

#3

Stefan, you are the most severe Applescripting genius! :smiley:

Thanks for pointing that out! Is this new to Leopard/Mail 3, or have I simply missed that for over a year? :lol:

#4

You missed it :wink:

#5

Geez, I’m so embarrassed! A classic example of overlooking the simple in search of the overly complicated and unnecessary…
:rolleyes:

#6

I don’t see any method for only marking the archived copy as read with Rules.

Is this something where an applescript rule can save the day?

#7

the easiest way is to add an action “Run Applescript” with this script

tell application "Mail" to set read status of messages of mailbox "Archive" to true
#8

100% StefanK, thank you!

I added that applescript in a rule following the Archive rule, and presto chango. :slight_smile:

Is there an applescript API that shows what methods are available for various apps, such as Mail? Or how do you discover what methods you can call?

#9

Just read the dictionaries of the apps :wink:

#10

very cool thank you! That totally opens Applescript up for me, now I’ll just need to get a grip with the syntax. I’m an AS3 programmer, so find this natural sentence syntax, and procedural scripting to be new & scary territory!

I’m gonna tell application “Mail” to open application “iTunes” and tell application “iTunes” to begin playback of “Henrietta” = ]