Re: sending from many different From addresses?

[Dan Frakes]

Title: Re: sending from many different From addresses?

On 12/16/2005 3:59 AM, "Allen Hancock" wrote:
> In eudora, I can change the From address quite readily.
>
> So if I need to send a quick email from [EMAIL PROTECTED]  I don't to  
> have a separate personality(Account) created just to do so.
>
> Is there any similar feature, or script available for Entourage that  
> would allow me to send an email from x amount of addresses, while  
> still only having the one account setup?


A couple years back one of the scriptmeisters on this list -- and I apologize for not being able to remember right now --  wrote the following script for me:


tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
    activate
   display dialog "Enter the return email address you wish to use:" default answer ""
    set theAddress to the text returned of the result
   if theAddress is not "" then
       set email address of POP account "DummyAccount" to theAddress
       if class of the front window is draft window then
           set theWindow to the front window
           save theWindow
           set theMsg to displayed message of theWindow
       else
           set theMsg to item 1 of (get current messages)
        end if
       set the account of theMsg to POP account "DummyAccount"
    end if
end tell


I’ve saved it to my Entourage Script Menu Items folder as “Dummy Account \ocD” so that I can activate it by pressing Control+Option+D.

Next, create a new “send-only” account in Entourage (in other words, you don’t have to fill in the “Receiving mail” section of the account dialog); name the new account “DummyAccount.”

Now whenever you want to send a message from a particular email address, choose the script from Entourage’s script menu, or press the keyboard shortcut; a dialog will appear asking you what address you want to use as your return address. Then choose DummyAccount from the From pop-up in your outgoing message.

The only caveat here is that you have to run the script before you choose the account in the From menu; if you don’t, and you save the message while you’re composing it, Entourage will use the previous return address instead of the new one.

Hope this helps!