Re: moving multiple *selected* messages in Eudora
Re: moving multiple *selected* messages in Eudora
- Subject: Re: moving multiple *selected* messages in Eudora
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:53:56 -0700
At 16:53 +0000 3/18/03, Charles Arthur wrote:
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I often have a bunch of messages that I want to move to another mailbox
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once they're selected.
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However the script that I have only works on a single message (which Eudora
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calls "message 0"); if I try it on multiple messages then it only moves one.
Check the archives for John Delacour's reply, yawning, to me on Fri, 28 Feb 2003. Subject: Re: Script for Eudora.
It appears that one can put requests for operations on <message ""> (I think that's the same as <message 0>) into a loop. The way one keeps from repeatedly operating on the same message is to move each one somewhere else after the work on it is done. The try loop terminates with a failure which can be trapped when there are no more selected items. (The moved ones are no longer selected even if moved only to the "end" of the current mailbox.)
So <message ""> really means "one of the currently selected messages" and not "the message in the currently frontmost window". That may be true only when the front window is a mailbox listing but you're guessing. It may be true only when there is no message open other than in a preview pane.
I too would really like to have the truth explained in a more general way than with example code. I don't think we'll ever get it from Qualcomm and I don't necessarily believe the guesswork above either.
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