[JamesKass]

Another one for the "Sounds easy enough" pile:

I'm looking for a script that will create a folder in a certain location on my hard drive. The name of the folder to be created should be based on the subject of an email received in MS Entorage. Any hints on how this could be done? i would only call the script on certain emails, for which I can assign a rule in entorage. That's not the problem, it's trying to figure out the script.

Any hints?

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James Kass (no, the other one...)
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[Paul Crawford]

Hi James,

Sorry about this delayed response... I was really hoping that someone else who's more familiar with MS OE/Entourage would jump in to offer advice.

I'm not sure about how to extract an email's subject line in MS Enoturage. You could try searching at AppleScript Central, which has several MS OE/Entourage scripts (actually, with any luck, you may even find the exact script you're looking for).

In general though, assuming that you have extracted the subject-line -- and have truncated it if necessary to ensure that it contains no more than 31 chars (the length-limit of a folder-name in Mac OS 9.x or earlier) -- then, the "making a new folder" part isn't hard. For example, you could 'tell app "Finder" / make new folder at (folder "some path") with properties {name:"the subject-line"} / end tell'.

Regards, and good luck,

--Paul