This is an odd request, but perhaps someone else might be in the same boat
and also find it useful.

I own the domain "frakes.org" -- all email going to that domain goes to me.
I thus tend to use various email address @frakes.org, especially when
communicating with online web sites and businesses. For example, when
registering for a user account at an online store, I enter my email address
as <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. The main reason for this is SPAM tracking and
SPAM filtering. If the business sells or gives away my email address and I
start getting SPAM at that address, I can simply filter that email address
directly to the trash (and I know where the spammer got my address ;) ).

One result of this arrangement is that if I want to "unsubscribe" from a
SPAM list, or if I'm communicating with the company in question, I need to
send a message from that account <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. The only
"official" solution would be to create a new account in Entourage each time
I create a new email address on a web site, etc., and then send using that
account. That would mean hundreds of accounts ;)

I currently handle the situation by keeping a "dummy" account -- an account
I only use for sending such messages. Before sending a message, I open the
dummy account via Tools -> Accounts, enter the "correct" email address in
the appropriate field, close the Account dialog, then choose the dummy
account from the "From" menu in the message. This works fine, but it gets
kind of tedious.

My question is this: would it be possible to write a script that would
automate this process? I was thinking of a script that would ask you what
address you would like to use as the return address, then edit a dummy
account accordingly, and then set the "From" account in the current message
to that dummy account. Is this possible/doable?


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