I'm using updated Entourage X, for Mac on a G4.
I've several differed email addresses that I use to correspond with people.
One related to biz, one with friends, etc. How can I get Entourage to show
the same email address I used when I first wrote to someone. Meaning...an
email comes in to me responding to an email I sent, my email has, say, the
address I use for friends. But when I hit reply, the email that is chosen is
my business email (as the return address email). I want it to be the same
email I wrote to people the first time, to show as the email when I am
responding to them. I keep having to go and check and change the email
address each time, should it not match the original.
Thanks
Two factors affect this; how you collect your mail and what preference
setting you have.
First, is mail for these accounts collected separately, or are they all
forwarded to one account where they are collected 'en-mass' in entourage?
If it's the former. Where you have separate mail accounts set up in
Entourage, all collecting mail from different accounts at your ISP (or even
different ISPs!), then it's a quick fix - go to Entourage 'mail & news\
preferences, select the 'Reply & Forward' tab and DESELECT the 'reply using
default acount' setting.
Now, all replies will use the account which received the message.
If, however, your alternate email addresses have all mail forwarded to your
work account then you need to be a little more creative.
It is possible to change the account of a message, but only by applescript.
I have asked several times to allow a rule to change the account, but (so
far) to no avail.â€
First, set up a script like this:
property accountName : "my_account" -- the name of the account EXACTLY as it
appears in the account list
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set accList to (every POP account whose name contains accountName)
if accList = {} then
display dialog "No Account defined!" buttons {"Quit"} default button
1 with icon stop
return
else
set theAcc to item 1 of accList
set messList to current messages
if messList = {} then
display dialog "No messages selected!" buttons {"Quit"} default
button 1 with icon stop
return
else
repeat with aMess in messList
set account of aMess to theAcc
end repeat
end if
end if
end tell
Duplicate this script with a different account name in the first line, for
each account you want to reply to. Save this script as a ‘compiled script’
or ‘script document’ (depending on what your script editor calls it)
somewhere safe. I choose to put them into the Entourage Script Menu Items’
folder.
Now, set up a mail rule to identify which account a message is for. This can
usually be done with ‘any recipient contains “
[email protected]â€â€™,
although this will miss mail that has been bcc’d to that account.
Now, as the action for that mail rule, which is to run that script you just
saved. There is an example of such a rule posted here:
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http://homepage.mac.com/barryw/accountrule.gif>
Now, when mail arrives which meets that criteria it will automatically get
the proper account assigned.
You can also assign this script as an action to mailing lists so that list
mail always gets the right account assigned as well – that saves a lot of
bounces from sending mail to lists with the wrong account (something ~I used
to do frequently!)
†You can send feedback to the developers on this issue. Use the last menu
item under the 'Help' menu - "Send Feedback on Entourage". This message will
go directly to the developers. The more people that request this feature the
more likely it is to be implemented.
--
Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
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