Applescript and mail rules:

Question

I'm trying to do something with rules that I can't easily do in preferences.
I want to create a rule that does does the following:
If from equals [email protected] OR  [email protected]
AND
message contains  "lawn"  or "Lawn" or "LAWN" or "XYZ" or "xyz" or "ABC"
move message to mailbox M
Or, do I just have to create a ton of rules?
Also, assuming the answer to the above is true, I guess I could write a single apple script that did all my mail processing.
I've searched and searched for such a script. Can anyone point me to something?
I'm an applescript beginer.  I just ordered a book, but not here until next week.
Thanks!
Dave

Answer 1

do it this way with an applescript (attach this to a rule action that checks all messages - will probably need some tweaking):
set senderList to {"[email protected]", "[email protected]"}
set keywordList to {"lawn", "Lawn", "LAWN", "XYZ", "xyz", "ABC"}
using terms from application "Mail"
          on perform mail action with messages theMessages for rule theRule
                    tell application "Mail"
                              repeat with thisMessage in theMessages
                                        if sender of thisMessage is in senderList then
                                                  repeat with thisKey in keywordList
                                                            if thisKey is in content of thisMessage then
                                                                      move thisMessage to mailbox "M"
                                                            end if
                                                  end repeat
                                        end if
                              end repeat
                    end tell
          end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from