Eudora: crt new mbox in a folder, then txfr selected mail to it?

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#1

As per this older thread http://bbs.applescript.net/viewtopic.php?id=8707, I have created a script that will transfer the topmost email to an already-existing folder.

a) I need the syntax to tell Eudora to transfer all SELECTED emails to a folder; and

b) I need Eudora to create the destination folder on-the-fly within a mail folder that I will specify. I can tell Eudora what to name the new mailbox as well. It should in fact be named for the date of the email, i.e., “2007.06.03” would be today’s email. Be nice to have the argument that Eudora should create a new folder and come up with the correct name for it based on the date of the selected emails, then transfer them, instead of me doing the folder-name calc FOR Eudora and passing it to Eudora as an already-calculated string. But I can live with it either way.

#2

Good luck. I have never discovered how to get the message that was selected or to select a particular message in the top pane of a mailbox window in Eudora (which I’ve been using since Steve Dorner sold it as shareware in 1989 from the University of Illinois).

#3

Hmm. Not sure about the select or figuring out the name, but I can help with how to make the mailbox on the fly.

IIRC, Eudora uses .mbox format. I’m not on my mac just now, but on the windows box, when I create a mbx file of length 0 and a toc file with the contents “1”, they show up in Eudora. It looks like you need to add an entry to descmap.pce on windows.

I think the basics are the same on the mac, except it’s a mailbox file.