Comments on: Automating Things

By: Dave P.

Dave P. — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:00:57 +0000

Hi Marius,
I’m new to applescript, and trying to figure out how to do the following:
I want to create a rule like the following:
If sender is A or B or C then

if content contains X, move message to mailbox M.
if content contains Y, move message to mailbox N

I *think* this can be done using an apple script, right? The rule would be on the sender, and the action would be the apple script that checks the content, and moves to the right mailbox.
Is this possible? I’ve been searching and searching for such a script, and I’m not finding anything that can do it….

Thanks,
Dave

By: Marius M.

Marius M. — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:36:08 +0000

Hi Justin,

first of all, thank you for your comment. I’ve read through the link you just supplied here and indeed there seem to be problems, although I haven’t been trying to reproduce them myself.

I would be glad if anyone could try it out on his Exchange server and maybe submit a fix/workaround that could make this script even work with an MS Exchange as back-end.

I’d try to fix it myself, but I can’t quickly set up an Exchange account anywhere without much hassle.

Bye.

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:03:00 +0000

Thanks for this post, Marius! A quick question: Have you (or any of your readers) tested out this Rule on a Snow Leopard system connecting to an Exchange server? I ask because I stumbled upon something that *I think* is a SL/Exchange Bug in how Rules are processed (see this post on MacScripter for more deets). Anyone here running this Things rule on your Exchange account? Kind Regards, Justin