Sometimes I have a number of emails ready to send in my outbox, but I don't want to send them until a certain hour. In the meantime, I want to receive mail. Seems like Entourage has only two choices in tools, "Send and receive all" and "Send All." What I've had to do is first drag those outbox mails into "Drafts," then click "Send and receive." I'd like to not have to do this additional step. Is there some "Receive all" option?
Have you never made your own schedules, Richard? Make a new schedule, call it "Receive All", set it to be repeating, or manual, or whatever, and set the actions to Receive Mail from Account A, Receive Mail from Account B, etc. Keep pressing "Add" button to add more accounts until you've added them all. (If you never, ever wanted to Send All, you could just modify your Send & Receive All schedule by removing "Send All", but I don't recommend it: make a new schedule instead.) Now UNCHECK the Enabled button for "Send & Receive All", or else set its Occurrence to "Manual" but keep the Enabled button checked for your new "Receive All" schedule.
If you have it set as a repeating schedule, you won't have to think about it. It's also possible to assign it a keyboard shortcut by a one-line script if you want:
tell application "Microsoft Entourage" to execute schedule "Receive All"
Then name the script
Receive All \moK
and press option-command-K when you want to call it.
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Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
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