On or near 9/5/03 11:33 AM, Neil Glassman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: >> On 9/5/03 1:49 PM, "Diane Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Is there a way to reply to a message based on the account received rather >>> than having the reply be the default account and having to manually change >>> it? It would be nice not to have to think about the account when doing this. >> >> This is a preference. Open your preferences Reply & Forward. Be sure you >> don't have checked use default account. > > The preference is unchecked. Checked are "Include entire message in reply" > and "Reply to messages in the format in which they are sent". The "receiving > mail" info on some accounts is the same as the default account. Could this > be the reason the preference fails to do it thing? > I'm not sure I understand. Do you know for sure what account Entourage thinks belongs to the messages?
Try this. Get the messages in question (the incoming ones) into a browser window listing. Select "View->Columns->Account" so that there is an Account column in the list. What account is assigned to the messages? That's the account Entourage will give to the replies with your settings. If you have multiple e-mail addresses that all arrive via the same ISP mail account, then I think what will happen is that they all show as coming to the main mail address you have at that ISP. For instance, I have a free mail account, call it "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", which is set to forward all its mail to my main account at Earthlink. Although the "To" field shows "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", the headers will show it arriving via Earthlink, and that is the account that gets assigned. Replies will therefore be set up as coming from my Earthlink address. In cases like that, you need to use an AppleScript to assign a different account to the outgoing messages, determined by the alternate address. Paul Berkowitz wrote the script. It is called: "Reply Rerouted Account". From what I see on macscripter.net, there is a version for OS 9 but none yet for OS X. The OS 9 dependency is minimal, and I believe the script will actually run on OS X. (This is based on a cursory examination of the script; forgive me if I am wrong. Give it a try.) The lists displayed (of accounts, for instance) will not be sorted. And you must set the script up the first time you run it, and won't be able to change anything unless you edit the script file, making an innocuous change like adding a space between words, save it, and then rerun it. You will want to think through all the addresses for which you want non-default accounts so you can set them up the first time through. Paul might be willing to make a new version of this that does not require the Akua Sweets scripting addition, which has not been ported to OS X. It is certainly doable. (The script isn't one of his most popular ones; Macscripter shows only 13 downloads. However, there is no telling how many copies were downloaded from AppleScriptCentral before that site merged with Macscripter.) -- Microsoft MVP for Entourage/OE/Word (MVPs are volunteers) Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Entourage FAQ site: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> AppleScripts for Outlook Express and Entourage: <http://members.thinkaccess.net/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Scripts/> Entourage Help Pages: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
