Where is 'Reply To' feature from Outlook

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Steve Basile

After assisting another user in converting from Outlook for OS 9 to
Entourage 2004 they asked where they can change the reply to on any given
outgoing messages. I had never heard of such a thing until they showed me.

Is there such a feature in Entourage 2004?

Thanks in advance.

Steve
[email protected]
 
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Barry Wainwright

After assisting another user in converting from Outlook for OS 9 to
Entourage 2004 they asked where they can change the reply to on any given
outgoing messages. I had never heard of such a thing until they showed me.

Is there such a feature in Entourage 2004?

Thanks in advance.

Steve
[email protected]
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Not on a per-message basis. This is set per account. You can set up
alternative 'send only' accounts with the new 'reply to' address and then
select that account to send from when composing a reply message.
 
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Steve Basile

re: You can set up alternative 'send only' accounts with the new 'reply to'
address and then select that account to send from when composing a reply
message.

Barry,

Thanks for the tip and quick reply.

I was going to set up exactly what you described but didn't want to waste my
time if such a feature could be revealed in Entourage.

I wonder why they didn't migrate this feature from Outlook to Entourage?
Does the PC version of Outlook still have this?

Steve
[email protected]
 
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Paul Berkowitz

I wonder why they didn't migrate this feature from Outlook to Entourage?
Does the PC version of Outlook still have this?
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Nothing in Outlook can be "migrated" to Entourage - unlike Word/Word,
Excel/Excel, PPT/PPT. Entourage has a completely different code-base to
Outlook. Maybe that's one reason why it has a different name... Anything in
Entourage - whether it mimics a similar feature of Outlook's or not - has to
be created entirely from scratch.

This is not only due to features that access the respective system-level
functions (e.g. QuickTime for movies, ATSUI for text, Quartz for drawing,
vs. whatever they do in Windows for all those). It's basically because at
the time Entourage was conceived it was decided not to attempt to do MAPI on
the Mac. MAPI is a protocol on the way out (although the need over on
Windows to keep it going for backwards compatibility with earlier versions
of Outlook has kept it going much longer than planned), and is inordinately
complex even in Outlook: email was a late addition to the Exchange intranet
PIM client that already existed back in Windows 95 (note that even in
Outlook 2003 contacts can't have more than 3 email addresses), whereas email
was from the beginning the main raison-d'être of Entourage. Anyway, there's
no way to port anything. Everything in Entourage has been designed and coded
from scratch for the Mac (the email and address book parts built on top of
OE Mac as was). They always have to make priority decisions: the Entourage
team is maybe 1/50th the size of the Outlook team, maybe smaller. They'll
eventually probably manage to include many of the most-desired features from
Outlook, if it's something a lot of people ask for. Use Help/Send Feedback
to make your feature requests.

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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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