Have a look at the following, which is the AppleScript code needed to move a selected message(s) in Apple Mail to another folder:
property target_mailbox : "@Waiting for..."
property target_account : "Work"
using terms from application "Mail"
on perform mail action with messages the_selection
if the_selection = {} then
beep
return
end if
tell application "Mail"
repeat with i from 1 to (count of the_selection)
set mailbox of (item i of the_selection) to mailbox target_mailbox of account target_account
end repeat
end tell
end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from
using terms from application "Mail"
on run
tell application "Mail" to set sel to selection
tell me to perform mail action with messages (sel)
end run
end using terms from
What is it with me and AppleScript? I can achieve just about anything I want in PHP, without having to refer much to examples. But in a million years I wouldn’t have been able to write the above from scratch.
Actually, this is *far* more complex than it needs to be.
tell application “Mail”
set selmsgs to selection
repeat with eachmsg in selmsgs
move eachmsg to mailbox “mailboxname”
end repeat
end tell
You only need all of those “using terms from”, “property”, and “on” lines to handle special cases which don’t apply when you’re just triggering a script from the menu.