sending mail from different networks

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Wageningen

Hi
Earlier on a MAC it was possible to use different "environments" when
working on different networks. Can anyone tell me how this is
functioning for MAC OS 10 and Entourage? The only option I found is
to set up different accounts. But then when working with three different
networks (work, university, home) one would need three different
accounts for sending mail, which is very complicated. Now the MAC can
download mails, but (due to the different outgoing servers in the
different networks) not send mails.

Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance
 
J

J. Simon van der Walt

Wageningen said:
Hi
Earlier on a MAC it was possible to use different "environments" when
working on different networks. Can anyone tell me how this is
functioning for MAC OS 10 and Entourage? The only option I found is
to set up different accounts. But then when working with three different
networks (work, university, home) one would need three different
accounts for sending mail, which is very complicated. Now the MAC can
download mails, but (due to the different outgoing servers in the
different networks) not send mails.

Does anyone know how to solve this problem?
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I've written a couple of AppleScripts which simply switch the outgoing
mail servers on the various accounts I use. Here's one example, slightly
fictionalised;

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
activate
tell POP account "My Account"
set SMTP server to "smtp.my_isp.net"
set SMTP requires authentication to false
end tell
end tell

And here's the one which switches to my work's email server;

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
activate
tell POP account "My Account"
set SMTP server to "mail.my_workplace.com"
set SMTP requires authentication to true
end tell
end tell

HTH
 
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