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What this script does
Authored by: extra88 on Apr 22, '04 02:46:14PM

You hightlight a message, run this script and it will automatically move the message into an IMAP folder named after the sender. If I sent you a message from "extra88@macosxhints.com," this script would save it in a folder called "extra88." I didn't read it carefully but I would hope the script would allow you to select multiple messages and have them all processed and sent to the correct folders.

Mail.app filters can have an AppleScript as an action, right? (I can't get to Mail.app right now) If so, maybe you could modify this script to sort incoming mail into folders based on the sender automatically. You can filter by sender in Mail.app already but you have to have one filter per sender & folder. Of course then you have to browse through multiple folders to read all your unread mail.

Personally I don't filter most of my mail by sender and when I do I don't want the folder name to be based on their email address. I'd have add some kind of hash table so mail from bsampson@blah.com would be paired with mail folder "Bob."



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What this script does
Authored by: markvs624 on Aug 29, '08 08:10:24AM

Did you ever find a way to sort by the "Bobs?" I would like some way to automatically create a folder for each new, previously unknown "Bob" in my "Business" folder. Also, if I were to manually move these created folders, would the script respect that, or just keep creating "Bob?"



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