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Make Spam Sieve easier to use in Entourage Apps
I was very exicted about Spam Sieve, but it's a little cumbersome to use in Entourage. Spam Sieve adds Bayesian (as in Jaguar Mail) spam filtering to Mailsmith, Entourage, and PowerMail. I've updated the Applescripts that come with it to make it easier to use, and I thought you might be interested in sharing these ideas with other users.

I made the following changes the the scripts:
  1. Added \cG and \cS to the name of the scripts. This tells Entourage to allow users to use control-S to set messages as spam, and control-G to flag it as a good message. I find this much easier than having to go to the scripts menu all the time. (this is a handy tip for any applescript you run from Entourage often).

  2. Set the "spam� script to automatically delete the message that it flags as spam, because if I flag a message as spam, I definitely want to delete it, and that saves me a step.

  3. Changed the names so that it's easier for me to recognize which script is which. It's not that the old names were hard. But I found myself pausing every time I had to flag mail as good or bad. By changing the names of the scripts it's much easier. Also, because the old names were so long, whenever I tried to make a rule with one of them the pop-up on Entourage would say "SpamSieve – ... Message�, so I couldn't tell if I was telling Entourage to mark the message as spam, or as a good message
Here is the new source of the script to flag a message as spam. It was formerly named "SpamSieve - Add Spam Message" and I have renamed it "SS Spam Message\cS":
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set msgs to current messages -- doesn't work without temp variable
repeat with m in msgs
try
set s to m's source
tell application "SpamSieve"
add spam message s
end tell
delete m
end try
end repeat
end tell
Enjoy!
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