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Created July 8, 2016 23:40
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Some applescript to move messages from an Outlook inbox to a dated folder in your On My Computer folder.
tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
activate
set folderName to "Inbox"
if name of selected folder is not equal to folderName then set selected folder to inbox
set selectedMessages to messages of selected folder
repeat with theMessages in selectedMessages
set {year:y, month:m, day:d} to time received of theMessages
set datedFolder to "" & y & "-" & m & ""
if not (exists mail folder datedFolder of on my computer) then
make new mail folder with properties {name:datedFolder} at on my computer
end if
set destFolder to mail folder datedFolder of on my computer
move theMessages to destFolder
end repeat
end tell
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