Moving current message to mailbox

[Doug Harris]

Here's my basic desire:

I want a simple way to move the current message I'm viewing in
Mail.app into a mailbox without using my mouse.

Mail.app only offers a keyboard shortcut to move again to the last
mailbox I moved a message to (Message -> Move to "Archive" again). But
I don't always remember what the last mailbox was and I would like to
be prompted for the mailbox.

Quicksilver's Mail plugin has a "move to mailbox" action, but I can't
get this to work.

There are, I believe, at least two issues I'm having.

First, the account is an IMAP account and the mailboxes don't show up
in Quicksilver. I've read the Quicksilver.pdf User's Guide. It says
"To use them in Quicksilver drag them from Mail.app into the Catalog
(e.g., under Custom)." But that doesn't work. I drag but they don't
stick. Another comment in a different discussion here (http://
groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver/msg/12079da61e8d560e?
hl=en) suggested dragging the folders from a Finder window to the
catalog but that this will circumvent the messages being treated as
individual messages.

The next problem is that, from what I read, once the folders are
properly recognized, there is no simple way to select the *current*
message. The messages are indexed by subject and/or sender. I don't
want to type any part of the text of the message I'm looking at. I
want to type something like "selected message" or "current message".

Or am I completely missing something obvious?

thanks,

Doug

[Doug Harris]

FWIW, I'm using β54 (3815)

[Howard Melman]

I think the Mail plugin has always been a bit weak and I generally
don't use it.

I use Mail Act-On to move the current message to various mailboxes,
it's worked well for me:
http://www.indev.ca/MailActOn.html

Howard

[Doug Harris]

Oh, that's very nice. This product needs more press, I hadn't heard of
it before.

This solves my problem perfectly.

Thanks for the pointer.

Doug

On Sep 22, 12:13 pm, Howard Melman <hmel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think the Mail plugin has always been a bit weak and I generally  
> don't use it.
>

> I use Mail Act-On tomovethe current message to various mailboxes,  

> it's worked well for me:http://www.indev.ca/MailActOn.html
>
> Howard
>
> On Sep 22, 2008, at 10:39 AM, Doug Harris wrote:
>
>
>
> > FWIW, I'm using β54 (3815)
>
> > On Sep 22, 10:37 am, Doug Harris <dhar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Here's my basic desire:
>

> >> I want a simple way tomovethe current message I'm viewing in
> >> Mail.app into amailboxwithout using my mouse.

>
> >> Mail.app only offers a keyboard shortcut tomoveagain to the last

> >>mailboxI moved a message to (Message ->Moveto "Archive" again).  
> >> But
> >> I don't always remember what the lastmailboxwas and I would like to
> >> be prompted for themailbox.
>
> >> Quicksilver's Mail plugin has a "movetomailbox" action, but I can't

[Chris Cairns]

very good product but still in beta for Leo. don't forget the disclaimer

:We recommend you maintain backups of your mail data or avoid using Mail Act-On in critical situations."