Saving Mail emails on basis of subject

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

Hello everyone!

Now that my folder action script is successfully writing email contents to one big text file, when the file is saved, (Thanks Rob), I need to do the following because I’m getting way too many emails(100 -250 a day).

Is there a way to set up MacIntosh mail to automatically save a group of files based on the subject of the email. What I need to do is run the script manually and it will find all emails that have “Quote Form” in their subjects. These files need to be saved to a folder on my desktop with a number appended to the end so previous messages are not overwritten (ie: quoteform1.txt, quoteform2.txt). The counter can always start again at 1 because I will delete the messages once they are in the folder and the content I need has been written to another file (using that folder’s action script).

Can this be done?

#2

Check out Mail Scripts, by Andreas Amann. There might be a script (Archive Messages) that comes close to what you need.

– Rob (a Eudora user)

#3

That’s a great bunch of useful scripts - thank you Rob! I found one that does just what I needed.

#4

Is there a way to do this in Entourage?

#5

If you haven’t already, do a search of ScriptBuilders. I would be shocked if Paul Berkowitz hasn’t written a script to do it.

– Rob

#6

there is a set of scripts there for purchase but i need something that runs on Jaguar and Panther.