Re: And/Or in Rules

[Paul Berkowitz]

Title: Re: And/Or in Rules

On 1/4/02 5:06 PM, "Adam Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 1/4/02 2:27 PM, Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On 1/4/02 10:07 AM, "Adam Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there any plans to add and/or (and, of course, skip to line #) to rules
>>> in Entourage? This is one of the few missing features from Emailer that is
>>> really crimping some of my more complex actions.
>>
>> It certainly would be nice. The problem apparently relates to the visual
>> representations for all the branchings that would be necessary, in
>> Entourage's Rules and Custom View method of presenting criterion choices to
>> the user. I trust it will come some day.
>
> IMO, the UI in Emailer -- while not elegant -- worked perfectly fine.
>
>> In the meantime -- every possible combination of AND and OR which you can
>> imagine, and then some, for every criterion, can be done via applescript,
>> which can be run from a rule. What did you have in mind?
>
> Well, this for example.
>
>   If Account is A
>       If From is b
>          And subject is c
>       Or if From is d
>          And subject is e
>       Or if Sender is f
>          And subject is g
>   Then file, set category, etc.
>
> My Emailer rules are *full* of these.

Yup. that's how it is. It's too bad they went backwards in this respect in OE and we've still got it in Entourage.

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
    
    set theMsg to item 1 of (get current messages)

    set {theAccount, theSubject, theSender} to theMsg's (account, subject, sender}
    set {theName, theAddress} to {display name, address} of theSender

    if name of theAccount is "A" then
        if (theName is "b" and theSubject contains "c") or (theName is "d" and theSubject contains "e"} or (theAddress is "f" and theSubject contains "g")  then
            set category of theMsg to {category "Ridiculous"}
            move theMsg to folder "Whatsis" of folder "Whosits"
        else if theAddress contains "yahoo.com" then
            set category of themsg to {category "Junk"}
            move theMsg to folder "Junk"
        end if

    else if name of theAccount is "B" then
        if theAddress contains "@some_domain.com" and theName is not "My Mother" then
            set account of theMsg to POP account "My Other Account"
            set category of theMsg to {category "Good News", category "very personal"}
        else
            set account of theMsg to POP account "A"
            move theMsg to folder "Forget About It"
        end if
    
    end if

end tell



Run that from a rule on <all messages> unless you can think of a simple filter to narrow it down which all of the above criteria will meet..
        
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Paul Berkowitz