AppleScripts and other tools for PowerMail

This page was originally designed and maintained by Wayne Brissette. These PowerMail AppleScripts come from individuals not associated with the authors of PowerMail. The third-party tools section can be found below.

Submitting Additional Scripts:

If you would like to submit additional scripts for this list, please send them to PowerMail support so that we can add them to the archives. Use the "Send a message to PowerMail support" item in the PowerMail Help menu.

PowerMail AppleScripts

Script Name
Author
Date modified

Description

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Backup Address Book
w. eric tyson

The script creates a backup of your PowerMail Address Database in the same directory as the current Address Database. The backup file is renamed to include a time stamp (e.g. Address Database 3005200081160).

How to read the timeStamp on the file:
digits 1 and 2 are the day; digits 3 and 4 are the month; digits 5-8 are the year; digits 9-13 are the time in seconds. this timeStamp should be unique enough to not cause duplicate files or file overwriting.

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Bounce Messages v. 1.0
David Johnston
2002-03-15

Simulates a server bounce. To the sender, it should look like your mail account does not exist. Use to deter SPAM.

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Burst Digest
Andy Fragen
2003-02-12

Takes email digests and splits them into single messages (AKA bursting).

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CD to Signature
Wayne Brissette
2002-12-10

Takes Current CD playing in iTunes and adds Artist "Song" - CD Title to the last line of your signature.

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Change Message Account
Wayne Brissette
2002-10-02

Changes the account of selected messages.

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Change Message Subject
Kuribo_

Changes the subject of selected messages.

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Change Message Subject
Wayne Brissette

Changes the subject of selected messages.
Almost identical to Kuribo's script

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Convert to XML
w. eric tyson

Convert selected messages to a well-formed XML document, and saves them to the desktop

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Copy e-mail (headers at top)
Alan Harper
2004-04-07

copies a PowerMail email to the clipboard with headers at the top in a format that Spamcop can parse (see ). I believe that the clipboard reflects the "canonical" format for an email, which may be useful for other purposes as well.

Note: To compile requires a licensed copy of the MacScript.com library.

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Count My Messages
Jerry Wass

Tells you how many messages are in your entire database.

Note: Some issues involving inaccurate counts have been reported.

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Count All Messages
Motti Shneor
2002-12-10

Tells you how many messages are in your entire database

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Count Words
w. eric tyson

Originally written by written by r. shapiro and ported by omar shahine and then edited by steve friesen, and edit once more by w. eric tyson (for powermail).

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Create Signature
w. eric tyson

Creates a new signature based on selected text

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Delete Aged Messages V1.2
David Johnston
2002-03-15

Deletes old messages (and attachments) in all currently selected mail folders after prompting user. Script can be customized to automatically delete from specified folders with no user interaction.

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Edit Incoming Messages
Kuribo_

Writes Subject and Date at begining of message.

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Email URL from Safari
Brian Hess & Jonathan Greene
2003-03-19

Takes the current webpage from Safari and generates an email with the URL in it.

Note: Originally by Brian Hess, modified by Jonathan Greene.

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Fix UNIX Mail
Wayne Brissette

AppleScript Droplet which requires BBEdit. Any UNIX mailbox file dropped on it is fixed so it can be imported using the UNIX mailbox import tool in PowerMail. Uses AppleScript, so it can be slow on larger documents.

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HTML Cleanup
Wayne Brissette
2002-12-16

This script strips tags from messages. Uses BBedit's Preview HTML feature.
Warning: This script is dangerous, html clean up is permanent.

Please let me know if you have problem with this script!

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html CleanUP
w. eric tyson
2002-12-18

This script strips tags from messages. attempts to use textSOAP (fast); if textSOAP is not found it will do it with AppleScript (slow). Use as incoming mail filter.
Warning: This script is dangerous , html clean up is permanent.

Modified by W. Brissette to correct some minor issues.

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Import Signatures
from Claris Emailer
David Livesay

Imports signatures from Claris Emailer into PowerMail.

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Message Body Filter
Kuribo_

Looks for content within the body of a message.
This particular script finds any message with a body that contains "THIS IS NOT SPAM" and moves it to the trash.

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Open Additions Folder
w. eric tyson

Locates and opens the PowerMail Additions folder.

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Open Attachments Folder
w. eric tyson
2002-02-21

Locates and opens the PowerMail Attachment folder.

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Open User Folder
w. eric tyson

Locates and opens the PowerMail's Current User's folder.

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Open With TextEditer
Kuribo_

Opens selected messages in a user specified text editor. Preferences for this file are stored in a file called Editer Preferences located in the PowerMail folder.

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Open Wrapped URL
w. eric tyson
2002-03-04

Unwraps a selected URL and opens it in your browser. (Needed in some cases where brackets <> are not around the URL).

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PowerMail iCal Scripts
Wayne Brissette
2003-01-03

These scripts allow you to use PowerMail as the default mail application in iCal. Full directions are located here.

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PM Shortcuts
Wayne Brissette

FaceSpan application which works as a floating window. Written for Mac OS 9, but seems to work in Mac OS X (although this application must run in the classic environment.

Allows you to change the Subject of a received message and refile the message all at the same time.

Allows you to edit any type of document (draft document, received mail, sent mail, etc.)

Allows you to change the status of any document.

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Purge Old Trash
Peter Jorgensen

This script is customizable by anyone with a little AppleScript knowledge.

Deletes (permanently) messages in Mail Trash folder that are more than 14 days old.

Deletes (permanently) messages in Send Mail folder that are more than 31 days old.

Deletes (permanently) messages in a folder called "zap".

Moves attachments of deleted messages into Finder's Trash.

Mail Trash and Sent Mail must be sorted in ascending chronological order, i.e. oldest messages first.

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Remove From Subject
Wayne Brissette

Removes a specified set of characters from the subject. You must modify this script to setup what you want removed from every subject.

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Remove Listed Attachments
Andy Fragen
2003-09-07

When run early in the filter list and selected "Always", deletes named attachments from email. It's handy for getting rid of those messages with "Enclosure", ".exe", "winmail.dat" or any other attachment.

SpamSieve Users: Also deletes .gif, .jpg, and .jpeg attachments from messages that are stored in the "Spam" folder. SpamSieve doesn't use pictures in its algorithm so why not get rid of them.

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Remove .mbx from mailboxes
David Parry

Removes .mbx from mailboxes imported from Mulberry.

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Send Message Again
Wayne Brissette

Allows you to resend any item in your sent message folder. It puts a line of "Message orginally sent on: " with the date before the contents of the message.

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Set Status to Sent
Charles Maurer
2003-09-07

Changes the status of selected messages to Sent.

Useful if you accidentally press Send or Command-L with a sent message selected since PowerMail queues the message for sending without providing a way to cancel the command.

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Speak Sender V 1.0
w. eric tyson
2002-02-21

Speaks the display name of the sender. If the display name is blank then it speaks the email address of the sender.

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Tag Attachments V 1.0
w. eric tyson
2002-02-21

Puts identifying information into the comments of files. It looks for the attachments in the attachment folder. If the attachment is not there, the script displays a dialog informing you the file has moved.

Information includes, sender display name and email, message subject, and date sent.

Tag Attachments v1.0 has been tested with powermail 3.1.1 using Mac OS X 10.1.2.
Note: use as a filter for incoming messages

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Trash Old Databases
w. eric tyson

This is a modified version of Takuya Abe's trash old database. Takes advantage of powermail's new environment variables.

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PowerMail-compatible 3rd-party applications, and more scripts

Tool / Script Name
Author

Description

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PowerMail Salvage
Ben Kennedy

A fantastic lowest-level PowerMail database recovery tool for use when all no other option is available.

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Bouncer AppleScript v. 1.0
Ambrosia software
2002-03-15

Simulates a server bounce. To the sender, it should look like your mail account does not exist. Use to deter SPAM.

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Habeas integration
Habeas

Instructions on integrating with the Habeas spam-prevention system in PowerMail

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Add Safari URLs via PowerMail AppleScript
pdxguy

As its name implies.

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Email merge
Sig Software

Personalizable mass e-mailing tool

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Emailchemy

Reads email files from the proprietary formats of the most popular email applications and converts them to standard formats that any application can use.

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SmartWrap
Sanford Selznick

Analyzes your text, detects paragraphs and lists within your text, and rewraps your text so it wraps naturally within your message.

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TextSoap
unmarked software

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