Re: newbie question

[Allen Watson]

Title: Re: newbie question

On or near 11/2/03 12:52 PM, William O'Brien at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:

> Hi.
>
> Would someone be willing to help me out?  My problem seems simple,
> but I can't seem to find an answer anywhere...
>
> I have contacts with multiple email addresses (home, work, etc.).
> When I address an email to one (or more) of these contacts, I want
> Entourage to send an email to each address that is listed for that
> contact.  At the moment, an email is only sent to the default email
> address for the contact.
>
> I apologise if this question is answered elsewhere.
>
As with most everything like this, there is a script for it. I don't think this script has been posted for download anywhere. I forget who wrote it. So, paste it into your Script Editor, save it in Entourage Script Menu Items (folder), and run it from the script menu.

--Set up outgoing message to every address of a contact
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
    activate
    display dialog ¬
        "Enter the name or one complete email address of the contact you wish to address." default answer ""
    set theInput to text returned of result
    try
        if theInput contains "@" then -- Assume we have an e-address
            set theContact to find theInput
            set theContact to display name of item 1 of theContact
            set theList to every email address of contact theContact
        else -- Assume it's a name
            set theList to every email address of contact theInput
        end if
    on error theErr
        display dialog theErr
        return
    end try
    if theList = {} then return
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ", "
    set theList to theList as text
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
    make new draft window with properties {to recipients:theList}
end tell

++ End of script ++

This could be possibly improved by allowing you to have a draft window open already, with a recipient selected in the normal way, and then using that recipient’s contact record to add the additional addresses; or allowing you to start with a selected contact. But this does the job, if you remember to run it.
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