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Kilima Njaro

I have several email accounts that I set up under my domain name that
forward to an email account in my email client (Entourage).

For example, say I have a domain called exampledomain.com and I have several
email addresses set up there like [email protected] and
[email protected]. I also have a catchall email address
*@exampledomain.com that allows me to use any email prefix. I have all of
these set up on the domain server to forward to my Entourage Inbox via
[email protected]. But when I get an email that was sent to any of the
original email addresses (like info@ or comments@), when I go to REPLY to
them using Entourage, it shows that I am replying from
[email protected].

Is there a way to get these forwarded email addresses to show as the
OUTGOING email address when I reply to an email that came through from my
original domain name email address like [email protected]?

Thanks,

Kilima
 
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Barry Wainwright

I have several email accounts that I set up under my domain name that
forward to an email account in my email client (Entourage).

For example, say I have a domain called exampledomain.com and I have several
email addresses set up there like [email protected] and
[email protected]. I also have a catchall email address
*@exampledomain.com that allows me to use any email prefix. I have all of
these set up on the domain server to forward to my Entourage Inbox via
[email protected]. But when I get an email that was sent to any of the
original email addresses (like info@ or comments@), when I go to REPLY to
them using Entourage, it shows that I am replying from
[email protected].

Is there a way to get these forwarded email addresses to show as the
OUTGOING email address when I reply to an email that came through from my
original domain name email address like [email protected]?

Thanks,

Kilima
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In order to send from an address you need to have it set up as an account in
entourage. This account does not need to have any info in the 'receiving
mail server' part of the account prefs, since it will never be used to
receive mail.

All you need to do then is to set the account of the outgoing message to
whichever email address you want the mail to come from. This can be partly
automated with a mail rule and applescript. First you need to set the mail
prefs so that the entry for 'reply using default account' under 'reply &
forward' is unchecked, then messages going out will inherit the account of
the message you are replying to. Then, set up an applescript like this:

Tell app "microsoft entourage"
Set theAccount to POP account "myAccountName" -- change this to the name of
your account
set theMessage to item 1 of (get current messages)
Set account of themessage to theaccount
End tell

Now set up a mail rule to look for (for example) 'any to recipient contains
"[email protected]"', with the action to run the script shown above

Now, any mail arriving for 'info@...' will be set to the account that
matches the 'info@...' mail address, and any replies will inherit this
account setting.

Naturally, this won't work exactly the same for the *@... Address catch-all,
so you probably need to set up an account such as
'[email protected]' to use as a reply for all these addresses.
Set your mail rule to look just for the '@exampledomain.com' part of the
address. Make sure that this rule runs after the others, and that they all
have the 'do not run further rules' option set.
 
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Sonjay

All you need to do then is to set the account of the outgoing message to
whichever email address you want the mail to come from. This can be partly
automated with a mail rule and applescript. First you need to set the mail
prefs so that the entry for 'reply using default account' under 'reply &
forward' is unchecked, then messages going out will inherit the account of
the message you are replying to. Then, set up an applescript like this:

Tell app "microsoft entourage"
Set theAccount to POP account "myAccountName" -- change this to the name of
your account
set theMessage to item 1 of (get current messages)
Set account of themessage to theaccount
End tell

Now set up a mail rule to look for (for example) 'any to recipient contains
"[email protected]"', with the action to run the script shown above

Now, any mail arriving for 'info@...' will be set to the account that
matches the 'info@...' mail address, and any replies will inherit this
account setting.
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This is great, Barry, thank you! I had been wondering if there was a way to
do this.
 
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