Function:
This script tries to match the address of the sender of an email message to a name in your Address
Book, looks for a mailbox with that exact name and then moves the message to this folder. It will
not move a message when there is no match to the address or the address matches to more than
one contact, for instance when John and Jane Smith share an email account and you have both of
them in your Address Book as seperate contacts. It will move the message to the first folder matching
the contacts name, there is no checking for multiple matches there.
Usage:
Select one or more messages in any random mailbox in Mail.app and invoke the script for it to try
and move those messages.
Download:
Current version, 20040518
Installation:
Save this script to ~/Library/Scripts/Mail Scripts/ for it to appear when you are using Mail.app. If you
want to bind a hotkey to the execution of this script, for instance ctrl-m, please add ___ctl-m to the
end of the filename. This binding will only work in Mail.app, as far as I know.
This script uses 24U Appearance OSAX 2.1, which is a toolbox for using windows for your script. Without this toolbox, it will not work. The toolbox is free though, you can download it from their website at http://www.24usoftware.com/. Please follow the included instruction for it's respective installation on your system.
Revision history:
20040518: initial public release
Using the code:
Feel free to use this script and continue developing it. I would appreciate a copy of whatever
you've developed out of it. And ofcourse, you can stroke my ego by mentioning how inspiring I was
when you were writing your script!
Ideas for future development:
There is hardly any error checking and only the most obvious things get checked, so there is much
to be done there. Offering a way to (un)check the summary at the end might be a nice feature. This
could be done by offering a switch or checkbox in the candystick window. Eventually, I'd love this
script to do it's data crunching and then come back with a table view window, in which all messages
are listed, with the matches (if any) for the senders and mailboxes found in relation to each message.
Ofcourse the user could then select one in case of multiples, with live updating of the table (a different
name means other mailboxes). Yeah, that would be nice. Also, maybe this script could be even
smarter and match recipients instead of the sender when the sender matches one of the addresses
in one of the Accounts of Mail.app ... I use a webmail during the day, in which I move sent messages
to the inbox so they download using POP3 when I return home.