This may be useful for people using Entourage. I have entourage set up to filter all of my mail into specific mailboxes. Everything left over is generally "personal". However, with lots of list messages coming in, it's sort of nice to know a bit more about these "personal" messages. Here's an applescript which will read who a message is from and the subject of the message for every message that the filter catches.
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"Enter the script using Script Editor, found in /Applications -> AppleScript.
-- get the currently selected message or messages
set selectedMessages to current messages
repeat with theMessage in selectedMessages
-- get the information from the message,
-- and store it in variables
set theName to sender of theMessage
set theName to display name of theName
set theSubject to subject of theMessage
say "new message from"
say theName
say "regarding "
say theSubject
end repeat
end tell
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