>Wayne Brissette on 3/16/04 said > >>Adam de Zoete [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 stated: >> >> >>>Hi all, >>> >>>Thanks for the comments. I've just tried the "Set Status to Sent" script, >>>but it seems to only convert a message that is currently a Draft (i.e. >>>not Read status). >>> >>>I'm probably going to have to experiment with redirecting, unless anyone >>>knows whether it can be done through different Applescript. >>> >>>I've got thousands of messages to convert, so I was hoping redirection >>>would be a last resort. >>> >>>Many thanks, >>> >>>Adam >> >> >>Try this: >> >> tell application "PowerMail" >> set MyMessage to current messages >> repeat with i in MyMessage >> set TheStatus to (status of i) >> if TheStatus is read then >> try >> set (status of i) to sent >> end try >> end if >> end repeat >> end tell >> >> >>I tried to test this, but the best I could do was set sent messages to >>draft, and draft to sent. There is something special about messages and >>how PowerMail determines what has been read and not read, draft and sent, >>etc. And it doesn't seem to want to let you pick a status randomly. > >If you try to change something in a message you have received, it says, >something like this is a received message, and gives the opportunity to >copy it. Then when you duplicate the message you have the opportunity to >save it as a draft. Could this be incorporated into an applescript? The >trouble is that it seems you can't just copy the message, but that some >change needs to be attempted within it before you get this question. > >But once the change is attempted, the message is duplicated, and you >attempt to close it, you do get an option to save as draft; which then >could be changed to sent. > >--
Barbara, Thanks but this method looses the date/time information. Many thanks, Adam
