Follow-up Rule + smart mailbox

Question

Hello,
I'm trying to set up a smart mailbox in which are all emails I sent but that need follow-up (they are not replied to, or I replied again and still was for reply). What I tried to do is create a rule in which every email 'from' '@my-simpatico.com' should be 'flagged'. Then I set up a smart mailbox that collects 'flagged' messages. Unfortunately it doesn't work - I don't get these messages flagged. I only get them flagged when I send to one of the email accounts which are setup in my Mac Mail. Anyone with a solution please?

Answer 1

ok, the following should do it (more or less).
paste the following into script editor and save it as a script.
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #ADD8E6;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
tell application "Mail"
set flagged status of every message of sent mailbox whose date sent is greater than (current date) - 5* minutes to true
end tell</pre>
then download and install [cronnix|http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/Mail_Scripts.html] and set it to run this script every 5 minutes. The script is pretty self explanatory I hope. you can adjust the number 5 as you like. It will work ok so log as you don't unflag messages too quickly. If you do they might get reflagged when the script runs next time.
P.S. Actually, use [lingon|http://lingon.sourceforge.net> rather than cronnix to schedule it.
you can save the script either as an application (in this case simply drag it to line 2 in lingon) or as a script. in this case line 2 in should look like this:
osascript path/to/script
where path/to/script is the full path to your script.
Message was edited by: V.K.