Re setting from header field

[David Leitch]

Title: Re setting from header field

Hi list members, I’m still working on my project to replace Lotus Notes with Entourage.


1   The steps I’ve taken so far are to set up an external account to my office firewall to let me receive POP mail.
2   Work out how to receive mail to that account from behind the office firewall.
3   Set up a Lotus Notes Agent that sends all mail received by Notes to my office account out to my Pop Mail Account. The Notes Agent retains the subject of the original mail.
4 I get the forwarded mail from the Pop account.

The problem is that the forwarded Pop mail looks as if it has been sent by me David Leitch, and I have lost the original sent header and therefore I can’t easily see who the mail is from or reply to it directly.

 

An example of a forwarded email is as follows:

>      Chris MEARS
>
>      06/04/2001 02:27 PM
>
>                           To:     David LEITCH/OM/ROBERT_FLEMING/GB@Flemings
>                           Production
>                           cc:
>                           Subject:
>
> are you ok to do this....

And the relevant headers are:
> X-Lotus-FromDomain: FLEMINGS PRODUCTION
> From: "DAVID LEITCH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 15:29:13 +1100
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Disposition: inline

The first non blank line in the body of the email Entourage receives is the original from header value.
For example the above email is actually from Chris MEARS.

If the mail had originated external to my organization the first line would have been of the form:

<name> email address

What I think I need is an applescript that takes the first non blank line of
text in an email and puts it into the from header.  That way my other rules
can process the email properly and I'll be able to reply to the original
sender.

The applescript dictionary for Entourage allows me to set the sent by property field but I’m guessing that won’t reset the from header.

I did post a version of this message previously but I don’t think there were any replies


Any help or advice is much appreciated. I really want to get away from Lotus Notes as although it is a powerful back end its closed user interface is the very antithesis of how a modern open standards program should behave.

Regards

-- David Leitch  JPMorgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] +612 9220 1609