Simple Categorizer JRC 0.1 review

Simple Categorizer JRC checks an incoming mail's From or Subject for certain strings you enter into the script, then sets a Category.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: Rick Cogley Price: $0.00 Updated: 31 Mar 2006

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Simple Categorizer JRC checks an incoming mail's From or Subject for certain strings you enter into the script, then sets a Category. The concept is that you can then use a view to sort on the category easily, and delete messages which have reduced meaning after a couple of days - messages that "expire" or become "stale".

To install, save script in ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Entourage Script Menu Items, where ~ is your user folder in OS/X.

Edit the script to include the From email addresses you want to check, and the subject text you want to check.

Use this script in Entourage 2004 rules. Select menu item Tools, then Rules. In the dialog, click New.

Set rule name to "Set to Expires Category" (for example), set the If section to All Messages, then set the Then section to "Run AppleScript".

Select the script. Clear the "Do not apply other rules..." checkbox as appropriate. Set the Enabled checkbox. Click OK to save.

I moved this rule to the top of my rules list, and it fires for every message, setting the category to Expires when a message that has either the right text in the Subject, or, the right From address.

Now when you have a bunch of messages in your Inbox, with the Expires category set, you can create a View to show them, and delete them regularly to save a little space.

Requirements:
Entourage 2004.