Setting "Date Received" sort order via Applescript?

For my 86-year-old Mom, I want to create an applescript that will always ensure upon launch that her Apple Mail's inbox is always the selected mailbox, and that the sort order is set to Date Received with the newest email at the top. (I'm assuming that would be Descending?) She keeps clicking on the column heads by accident which messes up the inbox's sort order -- and then she doesn't know what to do to correct it. (Well, I've shown her, but her memory isn't such that she can remember it tomorrow after drilling her on it today.)
I found a way to make sure the sort order is by "Date Received" but I haven't been able to determine if I can ensure the sort order or not.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Message was edited by: BrianJohns

Dimaxum,
Thanks for your thoughts and the link. I've been there and boy, if there's a solution in there I haven't found it yet! Lots to look at.
I would love to be able to freeze the UI settings in Mail and prevent Mom from messing up the sort order. Haven't figured out how to do that or even if it's possible. Short of that I'm thinking that running an Applescript to correct anything that might have been changed last time she was in the Mail application is the best I can do. I have the Applescript set to run at login, and it takes care of launching Mail when she boots up her computer. I also need to reset the position of the mail window on her screen and the size of the window and whether or not the preview pane is showing. If she accidentally resizes her window, or gets it off the screen, or loses the preview pane -- she's totally lost.
I've found Applescript examples that let me perform a menu action, but there's nothing to check the state of "toggle" items -- for example, command-1 both closes and opens the Activity window. I'd like for it to only make sure that Activity window is open. Mom keeps closing it and then she wonders where it went.
I could do all this stuff "back in the day" with QuicKeys. I'm thinking I should be able to do it with Applescript -- but I've never found Applescript (or automator) to be as understandable and usable as the old QuicKeys was. I do OK with Applescript as long as I can find an example -- but coming up with syntax and stuff like that out of the blue requires more experience with it than I'll ever have.
I just looked up the price for QuicKeys. $60 -- wow, I'd love to have it again but that's just too pricey for this single application.
Any more ideas or pointers, anyone??
Message was edited by: BrianJohns

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