Re: Apple Mail
Re: Apple Mail
- Subject: Re: Apple Mail
- From: Kok-Yong Tan <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:56:02 -0400
On Apr 12, 2008, at 13:30, Mikael Hansen wrote:
Hello,
The list of mailboxes in the Apple Mail window on the left shows
the number of unread messages per mailbox. As many of my mailboxes
has unread messages at all times due to my selective reading, I
wonder if the following type of message counter might be possible
in some form.
I check my mail manually (cmd-shift-n) and go to a meeting. When I
return an hour later and check my mail manually once again, I don't
know which of my thirty mailboxes have received new messages by way
of respective filters. I had hoped this could be AppleScripted.
The rules in Apple Mail support AppleScript, and I can envision it
would work by having each move message rule output a mailbox name
to something like a TextEdit window. Still, there is likely a
better way. Hope to hear from someone who has been there, done that.
Mikael
Why bother AppleScripting it? Like you, I have rules which sort my
incoming mail into multiple regular mailboxes (461 of them, to be
exact since I subscribe to many mailing lists). However, I also have
a Smart Mailbox called "Last Fortnight's Mail" with a rule which
displays all mail for the last 14 days in it even if they have
already been sorted into the abovementioned mailboxes and I mostly am
viewing this particular Smart Mailbox. In your case, just create a
Smart Mailbox with a rule for the "Last 1 Day" and you can see
immediately what new mails you have at the end of that mailbox even
if they've already been sorted. And if you want to see which mailbox
they have been sorted into, just select View->Columns->Mailbox (only
hassle is that if you change views to another mailbox from a Smart
Mailbox and come back to the Smart Mailbox, it seems to forget that
you've set this view). Total amount of work: 5 minutes and no
programming or debugging required. Hope this helps.
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