I have a client that used to have a rule in Outlook 2001 which copied all
emails to her PST (Personal Folder) after they were read.
After they were read? Entourage does not have rules that go snooping later
on: they all operate automatically (if enabled) only at the time the message
is received in Entourage. You could run a schedule, though...
We tried creating this rule in Entourage, but have not had any luck. It¹s
very simple, but the only way it activates is to select the emails in the
Inbox, and apply the rule.
Yes, that works. Another way would be to have a rule that:
1. Copied the message to the Exchange inbox.
2. Changed its status to read
3. Moved the message to a local folder.
That way there would already be a "read" local copy (actually the
"original") when the user read the unread copy on the server. The user could
then delete the exchange message when done, or at a later date, without
having to manually make a local copy.
I¹m not sure if this rule will even work now, but I was wondering if it might
not be better to try an Apple Script?
I¹m not much of a scriptor these days, so if a genius like Paul has any
ideas...
You could run a script from a Schedule every so often (On Quit, or once a
day, once an hour, once every 10 minutes, once every two minutes: it makes
no difference except it would run faster if it were more frequent, but be
totally "background" if run On Quit) that checked for all messages in that
folder, and moved it to the local folder.) Run this script from the
schedule:
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set theFolder to inbox folder of Exchange account 1
move (every message of theFolder whose read status is read) to folder
"Filed"
end tell
or whatever the local folder is called. That's all there is to it.
--
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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