Re: Duplicating an account in Entourage vX

[Allen Watson]

Title: Re: Duplicating an account in Entourage vX

On or near 8/3/2002 7:04 PM, Laurie A. Duncan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:

> I have about 50 more new email accounts to enter and was hoping to find a
> script that could take a specified account and duplicate it so I could just
> edit the usernames and/or passwords in each. Some of the accounts will just
> be diff users on the same domain, some will be different domains altogether,
> and all will have the same SMTP settings. To manually add each account is
> proving quite time consuming and carpal-tunnel inducing :)
>
> I looked on applescriptcentral but didn't see anything that would duplicate
> an account.  Anyone have any ideas? I have done about 15 of them already
> manually and I am going to go insane if I have to do them all like this!
>
Should be simple. This script will make a new account, with hard-wired values. You should be able to figure out the rest...If you set variables to read from a template account first, you should be able to crank out duplicates as fast as you can type the usernames and passwords. If you are stumped, write back, and I'll try to squeeze out more time to help..

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
    set acc to make new POP account with properties {name:"TestingIt", full name:"Nella Nostaw", email address:"[EMAIL PROTECTED]", POP server:"mail.circleofa.com"}
end tell

Look at the Entourage dictionary in Script Editor for the other properties of “account” you will want to set, such as SMTP Server, password, etc. Just do this for each property you will copy from the template:

    set theName to name of account “Template” -- You set up the “Template” account first
    set thePOPServer to POP Server of account “Template”
    etc.

For the variable info, prompt with display dialogs:

    set fullName to text returned of (display dialog “Enter full name” default answer “”)
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