Snooze an email message? (Automator Workflow in Mail)

I want to snooze an email message in Mail.
Meaning make it disappear and come back at certain time later...
Anyone have thoughts on how to approach this in Automator?
I've been told to have Mail pass the message to iCal and have it resent that way, but I was hoping to just work within the Mail.app.

Here's a way to do almost exactly what you're asking (slightly different) by using Automator to pass the message to iCal:
http://joannalaforet.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/schedule-mail-on-mac-the-easier-wa y-automator-ical-alarm/

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Thanks for the replies. But that link does not solve the problem: it just provides workarounds.
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As for any legal issues, I find them to be not very compelling. Although it is true that courts now admit emails into evidence as if they were any other document, that does not suggest that they should not be modifiable. That courts admit such electronic documents into evidence certainly imposes no burden on me, the email receiver, to maintain the email's original format. Moreover, there is nothing improper about making programs or add-ons that facilitate the making of such changes in emails unless and until Congress decides to take up the issue and make it a crime to modify received emails.
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3.     The way that I have built the list, commandList, is deliberately cumbersome - it's for the sake of clarity. If you prefer, you can construct the whole list as {{shortcut:"X", command:"X"}, {shortcut:"Y", command:"Y"}}
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SCRIPT STARTS HERE Paste the following lines (thru the end) into a new AppleScript Editor document and press RUN
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property gRandomCheck : {}
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set record3 to {shortcut:"⇧R", command:"Record Toggle"}
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set record5 to {shortcut:"X", command:"x"}
set record6 to {shortcut:"X", command:"x"}
set record7 to {shortcut:"X", command:"x"}
set record8 to {shortcut:"X", command:"x"}
set record9 to {shortcut:"X", command:"x"}
set record10 to {shortcut:"X", command:"x"}
set record11 to {shortcut:"X", command:"x"}
set record12 to {shortcut:"X", command:"x"}
set record13 to {shortcut:"X", command:"x"}
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set fileRef to open for access commandFile with write permission
set eof of fileRef to 0
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set commandList to read fileRef as list
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set selected to 0
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activate
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Hello,
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So this is all working just fine. Now I would like to add a step in between of type "Run AppleScript". In this "Run AppleScript" action I have the following code:
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1. new mail message.
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NateCook wrote:
For some reason, my mail icon is no longer showing my badge icon displaying the number of unread emails I have. Within mail, next to my mailbox, it no longer shows the number of unread emails either even though there are clearly email messages with the blue dot indicating they're unread. Does anyone know how I can fix this?
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