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This morning was my first foray into the world of Applescript, and it was surprisingly painless. My basic need was to have a key shortcut for each of three tasks that I do continuously in Mail in a semi-GTD fashion:

• Mark a message as Unread and move it to my @Action folder
• Mark a message as Unread and move it to my @Hold folder
• Move a message to my @Archive folder

After a little research I found various scripts that did small parts of these tasks from which I gleaned my first working scripts for Mail.app.

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I’ve just got hold of my invite for Hosted Gmail, and it’s made me very happy. Not only does it give me the awesome Gmail web interface but, as an added bonus, my mail.app doesn’t have to keep asking me which mail server to use when I’m in different locations. Normally I have to fill this in with the mail server address of the ISP I’m currently connected to.

I’ll be giving it a thrashing as soon as my MX records have updated properly and I’ll post an update.