Automatically print a PDF from received emails.

I'm trying to make Mail and Automator work together so that everytime I received a email (that I sended myself so I can print it on my mac) it's automatically printed and everything's cleaned up after.
I know nuts about automator, so here's what I did so far.
I config'ed mail with a rule that states that if "printthisplz" (my keyword) is in a mail, move it into the "mailprint" mailbox.
From there, I made an automator workflow that will get the email from that mailbox "mailprint", Get attachments from these mails (being in this case PDFs only) saving them to a folder named "mailprint" on my mac, then "Print" finder items. I also added in the end to Move those Finder items to trash.
At first it seemed to work, except it presented me the printing window of my printer, then said it was completed while nothing printed. The second run showed an error, which was corrected by adding Move to trash (apparently it won't work if there's already a file with the same name in the folder).
So it seems to be fine, if we consider that it should print normaly (which isn't the case so far), but I want to make it run by itself (e.g: whenever a mail is moved to that mailbox, trigger xx workflow or "print the attachments of the mails").
Thanks if anybody can help me with this!
PS: I know that I can share my computer's printer over a local network and in fact, that's what I've done. Unfortunatly the stubborn PC down there don't seem to pick up good the printer and I always find myself sending an email. Also autoprint from a remote place could be very cool at all.

I'm trying to make Mail and Automator work together so that everytime I received a email (that I sended myself so I can print it on my mac) it's automatically printed and everything's cleaned up after.
I know nuts about automator, so here's what I did so far.
I config'ed mail with a rule that states that if "printthisplz" (my keyword) is in a mail, move it into the "mailprint" mailbox.
From there, I made an automator workflow that will get the email from that mailbox "mailprint", Get attachments from these mails (being in this case PDFs only) saving them to a folder named "mailprint" on my mac, then "Print" finder items. I also added in the end to Move those Finder items to trash.
At first it seemed to work, except it presented me the printing window of my printer, then said it was completed while nothing printed. The second run showed an error, which was corrected by adding Move to trash (apparently it won't work if there's already a file with the same name in the folder).
So it seems to be fine, if we consider that it should print normaly (which isn't the case so far), but I want to make it run by itself (e.g: whenever a mail is moved to that mailbox, trigger xx workflow or "print the attachments of the mails").
Thanks if anybody can help me with this!
PS: I know that I can share my computer's printer over a local network and in fact, that's what I've done. Unfortunatly the stubborn PC down there don't seem to pick up good the printer and I always find myself sending an email. Also autoprint from a remote place could be very cool at all.

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