Apple Mail has some wonderful rules, but it’s totally lacking a rule for if a mail is NOT junk then do so and so. It currently only has: if a mail IS junk.
Basically what would be cool is if you had an Apple Mail rule that automagically copy any incoming mail that IS NOT marked as junk to a mailbox named “Archive” marked as read.
This would allow you to keep a clean inbox, while having all of your messages archived, which would in turn allow for your smart mailboxes to forever keep tabs on their associated messages, and they wouldn’t be marked as unread, and you could delete the originals that are in your inbox after reading them, and it would forever be a clean inbox!!!
HOORAY!
So, does anyone know how to script an Apple Mail Rule that would:
If mail IS NOT junk, copy and set as read to “Archive” mailbox.
You could add a rule to be invoked on every message, audiowizard - to trigger a script something like:
using terms from application "Mail"
on perform mail action with messages msgs
repeat with m in msgs
if not m's junk mail status then
set s to m's read status
set m's read status to true
duplicate m to mailbox "Archive"
set m's read status to s
end if
end repeat
end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from
Nice, the copy function works, haven’t gotten any junk yet, so can’t verify that, but the read status doesn’t work. The duplicate remains set as not read. Thanks kai
Yeah, the brief initial test that I ran worked fine, audiowizard - but further testing shows that, while the method works sometimes here, it doesn’t do so consistently (even with a delay).
Jacques’ idea to zap the duplicates, post-copy, produces much more reliable results - although this slightly more direct variation works equally well for me:
using terms from application "Mail"
on perform mail action with messages msgs
tell mailbox "Archive" of application "Mail"
repeat with m in msgs
if not m's junk mail status then duplicate m to it
end repeat
set read status of messages whose read status is false to true
end tell
end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from
