Suppress saving sent messages

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Paul Berkowitz

Is there any scriptwise way to suppress saving in "Sent Items", either by
deleting the message immediately or by simply not putting it there in the
first place?

Here is the script, which incidentally is a real worksaver:
<http://homepage.mac.com/gnarlodious/ForwardSpamScript.html>
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Hmmm. That looks familiar.
Now if I could just keep the spam out of Sent Items.
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Try an outgoing rule.


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Gnarlodious

Entity Paul Berkowitz spoke thus:
Hmmm. That looks familiar.
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I have gathered that this is a script you originally wrote, so let me
apologize to the group for that omission. Credit for this useful script goes
to Paul Berkowitz. I don't remember where I got it and should not have
posted it without knowing.

My problem is that I have 5 different copies of this script and want to
reduce it to one copy. The solution is to extract the sending server from
the header and match it to an address to be forwarded to. Then when sending
an error condition would try various sending accounts until it went.

Another casualty of the Spam Wars,

-- Rachel
http://www.Gnarlodious.com/Cogent/Cogent.html
 
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Norman R. Nager, Ph.D.

Try an outgoing rule.
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Paul, what a lovely tedium-saving ForwardSpamScript you created and
generously shared and that Gnarlodious has on his website and cited in his
part of the thread.

1. Paul, as the author of the script, can you refer people to your own
website address for that script (and whatever read-me info you wrote to
accompany the script)?

2. You suggested an outgoing rule. Which action would allow the message to
be sent but spare one from saving a copy of it in the Sent folder?
"Delete" or "Move"? Or would either prevent the forwarding message from
being sent before it was deleted or moved?

3. In your script, what's the difference between what is filled in for
"account" and "preferred account"? And do you enter the email address for
the account or what one named the account when creating it?

4. Is "spamdumpbox" the name you give a sub-folder of the incoming mail
Junk folder or ?

Thanks very much. Respectfully, Norm
 
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Gnarlodious

Updated page to reflect a few changes:
<http://homepage.mac.com/gnarlodious/ForwardSpamScript.html>

Entity Norman R. Nager, Ph.D. spoke thus:
2. You suggested an outgoing rule. Which action would allow the message to
be sent but spare one from saving a copy of it in the Sent folder?
"Delete" or "Move"? Or would either prevent the forwarding message from
being sent before it was deleted or moved?
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There is apparently no scriptwise way to prevent a "sent item" from being
saved which means during a spam attack your "sent" box will still get hit
hard. I set up a Rule like this:
<http://homepage.mac.com/gnarlodious/DeleteForwardedSpam.png> but so far
without testing, spam supply is at a lull.
Note it an Outgoing rule. Maybe a future version of Entourage can allow us
to not even save sent messages on an individual basis.
3. In your script, what's the difference between what is filled in for
"account" and "preferred account"? And do you enter the email address for
the account or what one named the account when creating it?
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I had modified the script to be able to send the forwarded spam from a
different account that it arrived from. "preferred account" was a remnant
of that project and I deleted it from the page above.
By default each spam is sent to the POP account it arrived from, so imagine
a traveler during a spamattack being unable to report the spam from whatever
ISP is available. My version allows you to specify the account name the spam
is to be sent through thereby overriding the default account. This means for
each POP or IMAP account a different copy of the script is needed, but a
future version may overcome this problem.
Paul actually has a script at
http://homepage.mac.com/berkowit28 which makes changing ISP's a matter of
selecting a script but I haven't tried it.
4. Is "spamdumpbox" the name you give a sub-folder of the incoming mail
Junk folder or ?
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It's just the name of a variable in the script, it don't mean nuthin'.
 
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