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Best Entourage hack for getting inbox to empty
spike13 | Jan 23 2007
I realized I put off getting my inbox to empty a lot of times because I hated dragging messages to folders. It sounds like a small thing but I get A LOT of email, as in 100+ emails a day. All that dragging added up to a huge annoyance. The solution...a simple applescript with an assigned shortcut key. For each of my folders: todo, toread, archive, etc, I have a script with a shortcut. Now all I have to do is with the message/s selected, hit the shortcut and boom -- instantly filed. Here's the applescript (thanks to google's entourage groups from providing me the script). To use edit to your own settings and put into your HD/users/yourusername/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Entourage Script Menu Items. Save file as: nameOfFile \cA.scpt. The "\cA" part of the file name sets the shortcut to ctrl+A, you can make it whatever you want though. NonExchange Account version: tell application "Microsoft Entourage" set destFolder to folder "name of folder" set currMsgs to (current messages) move currMsgs to destFolder end tell Exchange version: tell application "Microsoft Entourage" set destFolder to folder "name of folder" of Exchange account "name of Exchange account" set currMsgs to (current messages) move currMsgs to destFolder end tell Hope this is useful to someone else! - 8 Comments
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Wow, this is great! ...Submitted by atebit on May 24, 2007 - 7:22am.
Wow, this is great! I've been trying to figure out how to do this for years as well! One quick question...if I move a message from the "bottom" of my inbox, say the last message above a section divider like "Yesterday" or "Last Week", then after the move that divider is selected/highlighted, rather than the message above that divider. Is there a way I can modify the applescript to have it check to see if the object that's highlighted is actually a message or a "divider", and if it's a divider have it automatically select the message above the divider? » POSTED IN:
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