My ISP, in its infinite wisdom, has started adding the words *Possible Spam* to the subject of my email whenever it deems that I didn’t really want that mail. No way to opt out of the plan, no white list, and no relief in sight. I’ve called and emailed them twice.
Needless to say, their spam filter picks up about 50% of real spam and gets “only” 15% of legitimate email. Grrr.
Because they provide the cable TV and cable modem, I’m looking for alternatives short of switching.
Could an applescript look through the subject lines of email and remove those words? I’m used E’rage Vx with OS X 10.3.3 on an iMac G3.
Thanks.
Set up a rule to catch any mail where the subject contains “*Possible Spam*”, and set the action to run this script:
Tell app “Microsoft Entourage”
Set theMail to item 1 of (get current messages)
If subject of themail starts with “*possible Spam*” then Set subject of themail to text 16 thru –1 of subject of themail
End tell
Save the script as a compiled script & put it in the ‘Entourage Script Menu Items’ folder in your ‘Microsoft User Data’ folder. The script can be manually run from the menu or called as an action in a mail rule.
Note that after running this script no other rules will run, so this rule needs to be the last one to run, or the script action can be added to other rules as well.
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Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
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