Creating Rule/Script to emulate Mailbox App in Apple Mail

Question

I'm using Mailbox for iPhone and I love the "snooze" feature: it allows you to snooze a message in the inbox sending it to a "Later" folder and bringing it back to the inbox later (tomorrow, this weekend, next week, etc., you choose).
I'd love to do the same in Apple Mail with flags. If I mark a message with a red flag, I want it to be moved to a "Later" folder, and I want it back to the Inbox 24 hours later. If I do it with green flag, 2 days later, purple 3, etc...
Any way to do this?

Answer 1

goldfilm wrote:
Thanks so much for your offer, but what I need is very different: an action when a flag is a condition, and flags are not part of conditions in Mail.
I believe that's because Mail Rules work on incoming mail and flags are set on the local machine. You can send an email with a priority (i.e. high), but not a flag
I want to manually flag a message in the Inbox and Mail automatically moving the message to a folder after I flag it. If that happens I'm happy
Applescript can do this, but not automatically, you could set up this rule, then manually Apply Rules (⌥⌘L)
Rule:
Applescript:
tell application "Mail"
          repeat with theMessage in (every message of inbox)
                    if flagged status of theMessage is true then
                              set mailbox of theMessage to (mailbox "Main")
                    end if
          end repeat
end tell
The Applescript MUST be placed in: ~/Library/Application Scripts/com.apple.mail/
....although ideally I want the message back to the Inbox after a period of time.
Not sure if that can be done.  Maybe with  launchd and osascript