Applescript rule to print Mail?

I've been looking around the web trying to find out if there is a way to use Applescript to print out emails without writing to a temporary file and doing a shell script.
Can it be done? Is automator a better choice.
OS X 10.4.8 ad Mail 2.1

Still haven't found any other solution than to use a shell script and temporary file. Is this just a shortcoming of OS X Mail's Applescript capabilities?
Simply, based on some rules in Mail, I just want to print messages to a network printer via a script.
No go?

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I try to create a rule in Mail such that an Applescript is executed and then other things are done to the message (such as move it to a folder, for example). I want this to be the preceise order of things: first, do script, next, do other things.
I create my rule in the Mail preferences, and it all goes fine. But when I reopne the rule to examine it again, I see that the Applescript part of the actions has now been pushed to the end of the action list.
I wonder if anyone can explain the logic of this? I didn't find any reference in the help for why is this happening. Is it because of the possible time-out associated with the applescript (so as not to hang the rest of the rule evaluation)?
Thanks for any insights.
-- ivan
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I don't know exactly but it might be that Mail has no way of knowing that the Applescript has completed in order to continue. So, making it the last step ensures that the complete rules will work everytime.
What are you trying to do with your messages? Perhaps we can figure out a workaround.
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My goal is to get specific messages from one mailbox and put them into my Inbox. I've used a rule with a MailTags deadline to get the messages into the box, and I have created a rule to move mail with a deadline of today or earlier back to the Inbox. I would like to automatically apply the "move to inbox" rule to the contents of the other mailbox, so I can have iCal move my messages every morning.
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Or, is there a better, easier way to do this? It is important that the process can be set to run automatically. This whole thing is to get messages that are "on hold" out of my inbox until the time when I can deal with them. If they don't come back automatically, I'll forget about them.
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