Keyboard Shortcut for Direct Delete?

[Tom Kirshbaum]

Does anyone happen to know if there¹s a keyboard shortcut or a script that
will delete messages from my Spam folder directly without going through
Deleted Messages? That¹s a lot of extra key presses every day, given the
amount of spam coming in.

Tom

 

[Barry N. Wainwright]

Does anyone happen to know if there¹s a keyboard shortcut or a script that
will delete messages from my Spam folder directly without going through
Deleted Messages? That¹s a lot of extra key presses every day, given the
amount of spam coming in.

Tom

Look for the script 'nuke messages'.

Alternatively, the script is so simple here is one in all it's glory...

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set theMessages to current messages
if theMessages ‚ {} then
display dialog "Do you want to permanently delete the selected
messages?" buttons {"Yes", "No"} default button 2 with icon caution
if button returned of the result is "Yes" then
delete theMessages
delete theMessages
end if
end if
end tell

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[Tom Kirshbaum]

Barry,

Thanks for the script, but I ran into a problem with it. When I run it, I
get this message: ³Microsoft entourage got an error: {incoming message id
9973} doesn¹t understand the delete message²

Is there a fix?

Thanks.

Tom

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

You can adapt it slightly:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set theMessages to current messages
repeat with i from (count theMessages) to 1 by -1
set theMessage to item i of theMessages
delete theMessage
delete theMessage
end repeat
end tell


It's slower, but will work for you. I'm presuming that you're trying to save
an extra click, so I've omitted the "safety net" dialog and if/then block
provided by Barry . Just put them back in to be safer:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set theMessages to current messages
if theMessages ‚ {} then
display dialog "Do you want to permanently delete the selected
messages?" buttons {"Yes", "No"} default button 2 with icon caution
if button returned of the result is "Yes" then
repeat with i from (count theMessages) to 1 by -1
set theMessage to item i of theMessages
delete theMessage
delete theMessage
end repeat
end if
end if
end tell

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[Tom Kirshbaum]

That¹s great, Paul. Thanks.

Tom