Delete Mail In One Step

  • Thread starter David Barr Yaffe, C.A.S.
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David Barr Yaffe, C.A.S.

Does Entourage have a shortcut to delete mail in one step, instead of having
to ³delete² then delete them again in the ³Deleted Items² folder? In other
words, Windows has ³Shift²+²Delete² from anywhere that will permanently
delete that file. Can you do that in X?

Thanks in advance
 
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Barry Wainwright

Does Entourage have a shortcut to delete mail in one step, instead of having
to ³delete² then delete them again in the ³Deleted Items² folder? In other
words, Windows has ³Shift²+²Delete² from anywhere that will permanently delete
that file. Can you do that in X?

Thanks in advance
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Use a script like this, and assign it a keyboard shortcut:

Tell app ³microsoft entourage²
Set theMail to current messages
Try
Delete themail
Delete themail
End try
End tell
 
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David Barr Yaffe, C.A.S.

When I try to compile the script below, I get the following error message
and the first ³ is highlighted:

Expected expression, property or key form, etc. but found unknown token.

I¹m new to Mac (lifelong PC user) so this is my first attempt at a script.
I just copied and pasted your script below into apple script editor new
script window and tried to compile.

Thanks for your help in advance
 
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Barry Wainwright

OK, that¹s because the HTML mail has turned plain quote marks into Œcurly
quotes¹. Just select the quotes in script editor and re-type them as
standard double-quote characters. Then it will compile just fine.

Save the script as a compiled script & put it in the ŒEntourage Script Menu
Items¹ folder in your ŒMicrosoft User Data¹ folder. The script can be
manually run from the menu or called as an action in a mail rule.



--
Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
Seen the All-New Entourage Help Pages? - Check them out:
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>



From: "David Barr Yaffe, C.A.S." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 13:10:30 -0700
Subject: Re: Delete Mail In One Step

When I try to compile the script below, I get the following error message
and the first ³ is highlighted:

Expected expression, property or key form, etc. but found unknown token.

I¹m new to Mac (lifelong PC user) so this is my first attempt at a script.
I just copied and pasted your script below into apple script editor new
script window and tried to compile.

Thanks for your help in advance
 
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