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David.
On 16/9/04 3:33 pm, "Barry Wainwright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 16/9/04 2:47 pm, "David Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not sure if this will be clear...but I'll give it a go. I have an email
> address which is just a front for a charity that I'm involved with. The
> person who looks after our web site has set it up so that all emails
> addressed to this "front" are redirected to my regular account. How do I
> setup Entourage so that I can have this front appearing in the From field
> and not my regular account?
> Thanks,
> David.
>
That depends on your regular account allowing forwarding. If they do, it's simply a matter of putting the 'front' name and email in the account settings. Set up a copy of your regular account to do this, then modify the copy. That way you will be able to select which account to send mail from. Remove the 'POP mail server' entry from it's box so you can't receive mail directly from this account.
If they don't allow forwarding, you can set up your own mail server in OS X - it has one built in. If you are running Panther, look at 'Postfix Enabler' - that will let you turn on Postfix with a simple button-click. If you are still on Jaguar, you need 'Sendmail enabler', which does a similar job.
Then, just put 'localhost' (without the quotes) in the sending mail server box.
Whichever way you go, remember that mail will only be received from your main account, sao replies will default to this account. If you want to change that automatically, set up a mail rule to look for you new domain in the recipient field, and have the rule run this script:
property accountName : "my_account_name"
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set accList to (every POP account whose name contains accountName)
if accList = {} then
display dialog "No Account defined!" buttons {"Quit"} default button 1 with icon stop
return
else
set theAcc to item 1 of accList
set messList to current messages
if messList = {} then
display dialog "No messages selected!" buttons {"Quit"} default button 1 with icon stop
return
else
repeat with aMess in messList
set account of aMess to theAcc
end repeat
end if
end if
end tell
This script can also be run manually on a bunch of selected messages to change them all as well as being run from a mail rule.
