AppleScript for marking messages read in specific mailboxes

Hello
I'd like to ask whether there is someone out there with a good AppleScript knowledge who could help me out with this problem.
As far as I know, Mail currently does not support subscribing / unsubscribing to IMAP folders, which is why my "spam" folders are also being used to show the total number of unread messages in my mailboxes.
My idea is to use a script to mark all messages from specific mailboxes (namely "INBOX/spam" on all accounts) as read, as soon as they are received. All the spam mails are filtered by my provider and put into the "spam" mailbox with a subject containing "*SPAM*" automatically.
Anybody an idea?
Regards
Peter.
Message was edited by: peschehimself

Try this:
tell application "Mail"
repeat with each_account in accounts
tell each_account
repeat with each_mailbox in mailboxes
if name of each_mailbox contains "spam" then
set (read status of messages of each_mailbox whose subject contains "*SPAM*") to true
end if
end repeat
end tell
end repeat
end tell
But if you have a lot of '*SPAM*' messages in those folders it will still have to evaluate all of them and may be slow as a result.
H

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