But there's no need to change the Default Account if all you want to do is
change the actual account of the message you're sending. I.e., the manual
way to do this is to File/New/Mail Message (or cmd-opt-N, or cmd-N), then
flip the "From:" popup to the account you want. Simple.
And yes this can be done extremely simply from an AppleScript. It's
easiest if you make your own, and hardcode in the names of your accounts.
It's also essential to specify in the script whether each account is a POP,
IMAP, Hotmail, or Exchange account. You know that, but I don't, so just
adjust the script below. Due to an ancient design of the Entourage script
menu (so that it will still work in Jaguar), scripts made in Panther and
Tiger Script Editor do not preserve changes to script properties, so we need
to include a line that makes it figure out every time which account is your
default account, And due to an Entourage bug, that will error in some
versions if it's an Exchange account, so if you've got an Exchange account,
let me know and I'll adjust it. I'm going to assume from your "toggle"
phrasing that we're dealing with only two possible accounts here.
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
if class of window 1 ‚ draft window then
beep
return --quit
end if
set def to default mail account
if def = POP account "Name 1" then
set account of window 1 to POP account "Name 2"
else
set account of window 1 to POP account "Name 1"
end if
end tell
Put in the right names for your two accounts, and change POP to IMAP if
appropriate, Ask me what to do if Exchange. When you run this script and
want to change from whatever happens to be the default account to the other
one, it will do it.
First go to Help and read up on "About the script menu" to choose a keyboard
shortcut and make sure you pick one not already taken by Entourage. using
Control key (including in conjunction with Command key) is pretty safe
there aren't too many taken. For example, let's pick control-command-Z,
which is easy to press with left hand, (ctrl-cmd-A scrolls the message to
the top, so that's no good. Control-z is also fine, but you might press
cmd-Z by mistake.) So
Switch Account \cmZ
would be a name that would work (as would Switch Account \cZ ) . Copy and
paste the script above into Script Editor. Click Compile, then File/Save and
save it as a Script (the default) named Switch Account \cmZ or whatever,
with or without the .scpt extension. Save it to the Entourage Script Menu
Items folder in the Microsoft User Data folder in your user Documents
folder.
Now you'll see the script name appear, with its keyboard shortcut suitably
transmogrified into the usual symbols, in the Entourage script menu. When
you have a new message window up, press the keyboard shortcut, and watch the
"From" change. If you have any other type of window up (main window,
received message, contact window, etc) and you press the key combo by
accident, it will just beep at you.
--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <
http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>
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From: Francis Hookham <
[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 09:51:34 +0100
Subject: Re: Default account
I have just got used to switching the account default via Quickeys to use a
different eaddress for some mailings* and I wondered if this was an
opportunity to see whether Apple Script could accomplish the same task -
Tools > Accounts > select an account> Make default > Close
(I use Ctrl/Alt/7 for this eaddress and Ctrl/Alt/9 to go back)
Although a Mac user since 128k I have never ventured into Apple Script
Many thanks
Francis Hookham
* I know it can be done from the account popup in the compose window (but
not visible in PC OE9 MS News where I sometimes post to newsgroups
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