Applescript to delete from server?

Hi,

I have computers in different offices, and leave some messages (but not all)
on the server so that I can retrieve them (via POP/Entourage 2004) at the
appropriate office. With Eudora, I could set a filter to move messages
matching various criteria to a mailbox *and* delete them from the server.
(For instance, I only keep mailing list messages on one of my computers.)
But I cannot find a way to do this in Entourage; I end up having to delete
messages from the server manually. I have seen Paul Berkowitz's "Delete from
Server" script, but that only seems to delete them when the messages are put
in "deleted items"; I'd like a (simpler?) script that I could use in a rule.

Thanks for any help! I wish I knew how to write these things myself.

Steve Angle

On 8/6/04 7:31 AM, in article BD390E9F.3325C%sangle@wesleyan.edu, "Steve
Angle" wrote:

 > I have computers in different offices, and leave some messages (but not all)
 > on the server so that I can retrieve them (via POP/Entourage 2004) at the
 > appropriate office. With Eudora, I could set a filter to move messages
 > matching various criteria to a mailbox *and* delete them from the server.
 > (For instance, I only keep mailing list messages on one of my computers.)
 > But I cannot find a way to do this in Entourage; I end up having to delete
 > messages from the server manually. I have seen Paul Berkowitz's "Delete from
 > Server" script, but that only seems to delete them when the messages are put
 > in "deleted items"; I'd like a (simpler?) script that I could use in a rule.
 >
 > Thanks for any help! I wish I knew how to write these things myself.

I'm not quite clear as to whether you want a rule that both moves messages
meeting certain criteria to a folder and deletes them from the server _at
the moment they are received_ (when rules usually run). I think so. If so,
the most versatile way to do that, allowing you to make several different
rules of the same type, would be to make a rule or rules that:

If
<whatever criteria you want>

Then
<Move message> to <Choose folder>
<Run AppleScript> <See script>



The script would be the following, saved by Script Editor to your Script
menu Items folder:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set theMsg to item 1 of (get current messages)
set connection action of theMsg to remove at next connection
end tell



--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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