Hi Paul,
I read your message to Adam and figured it all out. I'm also in Ent 2001.
Thanks!
Beth
On 4/25/02 6:17 PM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 4/25/02 2:03 PM, "Adam Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>> Here it is yet again, in HTML, so you won't have line ending problems when
>>> pasting into Script Editor:
>>
>> I get the same error I got with Barry's script. That's assuming I change
>> "sent time" to "time sent" to pass the syntax check.
>
> Oops. sorry about the inversion 'time sent'.
>
> OK, Adam. You didn't mention you are using Entourage 2001. It's always a
> good idea to do so - I just checked the Source to find out. This is a good
> example of why it's important. Most of the AppleScript answerers here
> (Barry, Allen, myself) are all using Entourage X. So when we check out a
> script, that's what we're using.
>
> My script with the correction, and Barry's once you piece it together, both
> work in Entourage X.
>
> Neither one works in Entourage 2001, because of a BUG: as I best recall,
> 'category' does not work in whose clauses for some elements ('contact' is
> another one) in E2001. I'm certain about 'contact', I'll check 'message'
> next time I'm in OS 9 or Classic. So you'll have to run a repeat loop, which
> is lot slower if you have a full folder with lots of items, but will do the
> job.
>
> This will work. Promise:
>
> ------------------------------------------
>
> set sentDate to (current date) - (3 * days) -- will keep updating
>
> tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
>
> set theMsgs to (every message of deleted mail folder whose time sent is
> less than sentDate)
> repeat with theMsg in theMsgs
> if category of theMsg contains {category "Junk"} then delete theMsg
> end repeat
>
> end tell
>
> ---------------------------
>
> Incidentally, there's a another bug in 2001 with equality of dates, so don't
> use � (less than or equal).
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