Re: Question for the script wizards ;)

[Mr Tea]

Title: Re: Question for the script wizards ;)

This from Dan Frakes - dated 6/5/02 08.23 pm:

> 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?

Hi, Dan. I'm currently groping my way around the Entourage scripting dictionary, and this looked like an interesting challenge, as I have an account that works like your 'frakes.org' domain.

Here's what I came up with after a quick dabble (there are probably far more efficient ways to do the same thing). It asks you for a name to go before the @ symbol, and then tweaks the dummy account accordingly and opens a new message from that account. As it stands, you have to enter the recipient's address, but with a little more work I'm sure it could get it from a selected message.

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
    activate
   display dialog "Enter a name to go before the '@' symbol:" default answer ""
    set theName to the text returned of the result
   if theName is not "" then
       set theAddress to email address of POP account "Generic"
        set n to offset of "@" in theAddress
       set theDomain to text n thru (count of text items in theAddress) of theAddress
       set email address of POP account "Generic" to theName & theDomain
       make new outgoing message with properties {account:POP account "Generic"}
        open the result
   end if
end tell

It's not quite what you asked for (which was changing the 'from' info for an outgoing message that's already open), but that's bound to be possible. However, it's late here in the UK, and the pot's run dry.

Mr Tea
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