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A script to move Mail message to IMAP folders
Authored by: mchang on Apr 26, '04 04:34:20PM

To clarify (I'm the author of the hint):

Using mail from the pine/mutt days (terminal), I organized all my saved messages by the first part of the email address of the sender. This is an option in Pine, so when you hit (S)ave, it automatically suggests that as the save mail folder.

I have LOTS of mail folders on my imap server, so moving a message by click-dragging it is seriuosly annoying. I have to either pre-scroll the mailbox list, or drag and scroll the list, or control-click and select from a huge list.

This got old really quickly, so this script is used so that it will automatically figure out the destination mail folder based on the sender's email address, then move it to that folder for me (after confirmation), or, if it can't find the matching folder, prompt for another folder.

I am currently working on a more advanced version in AppleScript studio that will run concurrently with Mail.app and allow you to move and select from folders much more quickly.

Mark



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