Mail Scripts 2.7.13

Mail Scripts is a collection of AppleScripts offering additional features or simplified workflow to Mail.app.
Main features:
- Add Addresses (Mail): Add addresses found in the selected messages (in the header fields "From", "To", "Cc", and "Bcc") to the Address Book. This is much more flexible than the "Add Sender to Address Book" available in Mail and provides a convenient way for creating mailing lists.
- Archive Messages (Mail): Move messages from the selected mailbox(es) to an archive mailbox or export them to standard mbox or plain text files for backup purposes or import into other applications. You can select to move all messages or only messages sent within or certain period as well filter messages based on their read and flagged status.
- Change SMTP Server (Mail): Switch between different already defined SMTP servers or define a new one. This is especially useful if you are using your computer in more than one location and have to switch servers for several accounts at once.
- Create Rule (Mail): Create a new rule based on the first of the selected messages. This saves you the trouble of copy/pasting address or other info between the message and the rule window and provides a much quicker way for setting up a rule with multiple criteria/actions.
- Remove Duplicates (Mail): Locate all duplicate messages found in the selected mailbox(es) and move them to a separate mailbox for easy removal (duplicate matching is based on the unique message header "Message-Id").
- Schedule Delivery (Mail): Allows you to send individual messages at predefined times (this script uses iCal for scheduling message delivery).
- Send all Drafts (Mail): Immediately send all messages in the "Drafts" folders for all accounts. This saves you from having to open each draft in order to send it.
- Open Mailbox, Open Message (Mail): Two small faceless scripts which will open mailboxes with new messages or the new messages themselves when run as a rule action.
- Filter Sent Messages (Mail): Another faceless scripts which will apply your rules to the messages in the "Sent" mailbox.
- Export Addresses (Address Book): Export addresses from the Address Book into tab-delimited text files. You can select which groups and which fields you want to export.
- Search Addresses (Address Book): Find all addresses inside the Address Book matching one or more criteria. As opposed to the "Search" function built into the Address Book, this lets you search in any field as well as for empty and non-empty fields. As an example, you might use this script to search for all phone numbers with a certain area code in order to update your contacts after an area code change.
- Mail Scripts are fully localized in English, German, Dutch, French, Italian, and Greek.
Enhancements:
- Add Addresses): dont show smart groups in the popup as new contacts obviously cannot be added manually to a smart group.
- (Add Addresses): try to work around a bug in Mail (Apple bug ID 5147376) where it fails to parse addresses in the form "" (they would have displayed as " " before, leading to some ugly entries in the Address Book).
- (Add Addresses): remember the last selection for the address label and preselect it when starting the script the next time.
- (Archive Messages): when exporting to rich text files, create *.rtfd packages only when needed (i.e., when attachments are present) - the script now defaults to simple *.rtf files. This will make opening the files with applications not familiar with the *.rtfd format (e.g., Microsoft Word) easier.
- (Archive Messages): also add a file extension when exporting to one file per message to make the resulting files format a little more obvious.
- (Archive Messages): use a shell script instead of calling the Finder when creating folders for exported messages - this hopefully will avoid the timing issues leading to random type -1409 errors.
- (Filter Sent Messages): Fix the script to correctly work for rules based on custom messages headers.
- (Remove Duplicates): dont ignore Message-IDs shorter than 12 characters when looking for potential duplicates.
- (Remove Duplicates): a few fixes for character escaping in the shell scripts for initial scanning for duplicate Message-IDs.
- (Remove Duplicates): be a little smarter about which message to move to the duplicates folder based on message status - the message status is now ranked based on message flags in the following order: flagged, replied, redirected, forwarded, read.