Hi
(My company does not support Entourage so I am stuck with Mail)
If I recieve an email from someone who is not assigend to a Mail rule, can I set a script to create a new folder in a specific place, name it according to the persons name, and automatically create a rule that will filter their email to the new folder for all future emails?
phew! if there is it would save me hours of silly rule setting!
Thanks

Yes, you could do that. How far have you gotten with your script?
As it happens, Michelle Steiner posted a similar beast for outgoing messages in the alt.comp.lang.applescript news group on Monday. Hereโs an adaptation for use on a selected, received message, which you could further adapt to your own requirements:
-- adapted from Michelle Steiner
tell application "Mail"
-- Get the sender's address.
set foo to the selection
set foo to item 1 of foo
set address_ to sender of foo
-- Parse the address for a suitable folder and rule name.
set astid to AppleScript's text item delimiters
if address_ contains "<" then
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " <"
else
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "@"
end if
set folder_name to text item 1 of address_
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to astid
-- Make a new mailbox.
if not (mailbox folder_name exists) then
make new mailbox at end of mailboxes with properties {name:folder_name}
end if
-- Make a new rule and enable it.
if not (rule folder_name exists) then
set new_rule to (make new rule at after rule 1 with properties {name:folder_name, move message:mailbox folder_name, should move message:true, stop evaluating rules:true})
tell new_rule
make new rule condition with properties {expression:address_, rule type:from header, qualifier:does contain value}
set enabled to true
end tell
end if
end tell