Replying to Multiple Accounts/Email Addresses

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Simon Simpson

I have multiple email addresses which I access through Entourage 2004.
For example, one email address/account is for work and one is for
private use. This all works very well.

With the 'Accounts' window I can decide which account is the
'default' so when I reply to emails this is automatically selected
as the "From:" email in the header. If I'm sufficiently awake I
can select the appropriate "From:" email address/account from the
pull-down list so that my business correspondents always get my
business "From:" address, and private correspondents always get my
private address.

Well, I'm only human and sometimes I forget to do this, to the
confusion of some recipients.

My question is this.
Is it possible to configure Entourage so that, when replying to emails,
it automatically selects the correct "From:" address by using the
original email address to which the message was sent ? So if a
correspondent sends an email to my business email, when I reply, this
automatically becomes the "From:" address ?

I hope this makes sense to someone out there.

Any ideas ?

My good wishes,
Simon Simpson
 
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Barry Wainwright [MVP]

I have multiple email addresses which I access through Entourage 2004.
For example, one email address/account is for work and one is for
private use. This all works very well.

With the 'Accounts' window I can decide which account is the
'default' so when I reply to emails this is automatically selected
as the "From:" email in the header. If I'm sufficiently awake I
can select the appropriate "From:" email address/account from the
pull-down list so that my business correspondents always get my
business "From:" address, and private correspondents always get my
private address.

Well, I'm only human and sometimes I forget to do this, to the
confusion of some recipients.

My question is this.
Is it possible to configure Entourage so that, when replying to emails,
it automatically selects the correct "From:" address by using the
original email address to which the message was sent ? So if a
correspondent sends an email to my business email, when I reply, this
automatically becomes the "From:" address ?

I hope this makes sense to someone out there.

Any ideas ?

My good wishes,
Simon Simpson
Click to expand...

What you ask to achieve can be done by unchecking the 'reply using default
account' in the 'Reply & forward' section of Entourage's prefs. However,
this is only half the story...

If you have forwarding accounts, where mail to several email addresses is
all collected in one account, this will not help. I have a script to change
the account of an incoming message to be correct according the the email
address of the recipient. This will take care of replies to those 'send
only' accounts.

That's still not the full story...

New messages are the place where I always used to forget to set the account
properly. To solve this problem, download my 'set account by category'
script. This in combination with a schedule (full details in the readme)
will check each message as it is being written for the category of the
addressee and change the account of the message accordingly

The 'set account by category' script can be found at
<http://www.barryw.net/scripts/scripts.html>.
 
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