Send all messages in Drafts Mailbox in Mail - How to do this in Automator?

A MacUser only for 20 years, I've just moved from Eudora eMail to Apple's Mail program. One feature that I would like to have with Mail that I had with Eudora is the ability to "queue" a message (similar to putting the message into the DRAFTS mailbox)- but then Eudora would send all 'queued' messages via one send button.
(There is a Mail Scripts 2.10 workaround out there, but it does NOT work with "Rich Text" and therefore is not at all what I want...)
So I am wondering if I can just put messages into the DRAFTS mailbox, keep them there and review / rewrite them as I wish; then when ready to send all of them:
I write an Automator Workflow to check for any messages in the DRAFTS Mailbox, then have this Automator send them -- all at onc; likely by an iterative process after it starts by looking for messages to send in the DRAFTS box and runs until the Drafts Mailbox is empty and then it stops.
It could be as simple as having the Automator move all messages from the DRAFTS mailbox to the OUTBOX - where they would be sent automatically I believe if the Mac was Online-- which it is all the time.
I am just not sure how to write a workflow -- I've basically only pieced together 'actions' that others have written to create a small workflow myself-- but nothing like this.
Best regards,
Steve Schulte
Friday 16 October 2009

Stephen,
I am trying to do the same thing. I am sorry no one is commenting but that tends to be because what you are doing is a workaround and making Mail do something it is not intended to do.
In other words, I also want to do the same thing (send mail at 2 times per day, and create drafts to send in one batch, without me hitting the 'send' button.)
The scripts currently in Automator do not have any sort of clear method to do this. Help!

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