Can I assign certain contacts to always befrom certain email accounts?

[gww]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Power PC
Email Client: pop

I have a few email accounts that all dump into my one entourage account. I use my default email address for one of my businesses and I would like to be able to assign certain contacts to automatically be written from a different address than the default. Right now, I have to change them by hand each time I send out an email to my other business. However, I forget sometimes and that is not good and embarrassing. Does anyone know if this can be done? Or perhaps assign a category if not an individual contact?

 

[Diane Ross]

I have a few email accounts that all dump into my one entourage account. I use
my default email address for one of my businesses and I would like to be able
to assign certain contacts to automatically be written from a different
address than the default. Right now, I have to change them by hand each time I
send out an email to my other business. However, I forget sometimes and that
is not good and embarrassing. Does anyone know if this can be done? Or perhaps
assign a category if not an individual contact?

Entourage 2008 has several Automator actions that help do tasks like this.

Select: Create New Entourage Mail Message. Select From account. Now save
this as an Automator workflow in the Entourage Script menu folder. You can
assign a short cut to the script, but if you have a lot of contacts that
might mean a lot of memorization.

Entourage came with several default workflows. Just look at the bottom of
the script menu and check them out.


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[gww]

Thank you so much for your help. I have been trying to do this but I cannot see create automated work flow under the script menu. There are other things, but not that. Am I doing something wrong?

 

[Diane Ross]

Thank you so much for your help. I have been trying to do this but I cannot
see create automated work flow under the script menu. There are other things,
but not that. Am I doing something wrong?

Entourage comes with these Automator workflows. They are shown at the bottom
of the Script menu list:

SAMPLE AUTOMATOR WORKFLOWS FOLDER:
Convert message text to audio and send to an iPod\sc-.workflow
Create a .zip archive for specified messages\scl.workflow
Edit selected contacts\scn.workflow
Edit specified contacts\sco.workflow
Flag selected messages for follow-up\scs.workflow
Print selected messages\scq.workflow
Send image attachments to iPhoto\sct.workflow
Send images on the current Safari Web page in a message\scw.workflow
Send specified images in a message\scg.workflow
Send the current Safari Web page URL in a message\scu.workflow
Send the system profile in a message\scp.workflow

To create your own workflow,

1) open the Automator application
2) Select: Create New Entourage Mail Message.
Select From account.
3) save this as an Automator workflow in the Entourage Script menu folder or
save as an Automator application and put the icon on your desktop to access.

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
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[gww]

I don't have anything at the bottom of my script menu list. The only things listed are:
About this menu
Create event from message
Create note from message
Create task from message
insert text file
open email folder
Save selection

Am I looking in the wrong place? I am looking under the squiggly S on the far right.

 

[Diane Ross]

Am I looking in the wrong place? I am looking under the squiggly S on the far
right.

Nope, sounds like you have a bad install of Office 2008. Verify this for
me...

In the Finder, open your root Library folder --> Automator folder. Do you
see any Office actions? Here are the first few ones listed:

Add Attachments to Entourage Messages.action
Add Content to Word Documents.action
Add Document Properties Page to Word Documents.action
Add New Sheet to Workbooks.action
Add Table of Contents to Word Documents.action

Follow these steps to reinstall:

* Launch the Microsoft Autoupdater (MAU).To launch MAU, you can open any
Office application and select "Check for Updates" under Help in the Menu
bar. Once MAU is launched, select "Keep in Dock"
* Quit all Microsoft applications (Easy way: log out/in with Shift key down
to disable any startup items.) Be sure all applications are quit before
running updater. IMPORTANT
* Drag the Microsoft Office 2008 folder to the Trash.
* Empty Trash.
* Reinstall Office 2008 from your original installation disk.
* Restart
* Update to 12.1.0 (if you have a newer DVD you might only need the 12.1.5)
* Restart (restarting before you launch any app is important!)
* Update to 12.1.5
* Restart

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
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[gww]

THank you. I did exactly what you said. No, only one item is in the automator folder and that is: PBAutomatorAction
So, I did your next uninstall reinstall exactly how you said. That took a while but still nothing is different. I have the teacher addition, perhaps that is why? I am very bummed that I am missing these elements.

 

[Diane Ross]

So, I did your next uninstall reinstall exactly how you said. That took a
while but still nothing is different. I have the teacher addition, perhaps
that is why? I am very bummed that I am missing these elements.

That's it the Home & Student version of 08 doesn't contain Automator
actions. Sorry I didn't think of that when we started this.

The forum options for details is definitely too general. Hope to see that
changed. It would have saved both of us a lot of time.

 

[gww]

I really appreciate all your help anyway! I hope it will help someone in the future.

 

[Diane Ross]

I really appreciate all your help anyway! I hope it will help someone in the
future.

I just ran across something that might help you.

Send from Other Account
<http://www.mactech.com:16080/vba-transition-guide/index-120.html>

Frequently people receive mail at a "public" email address ­ which may even
be an "alias" that forwards the mail on to another address. In reply, you
might want to send from a different email address. Or sometimes, everything
works fine when replying because the address is the appropriate one, but
when sending a new (non-reply) message Entourage will naturally send it from
the default account unless you remember to change the account manually in
the "From" popup. Especially in business, you'd like to be able to send mail
automatically from the "correct" account.

By creating a category (in Edit/Categories/Edit Categories) with the same
name as the mail account, and then assigning this category to contacts in
your address book to whom you wish correspondence to be sent only from that
account, this script will make it possible, Again, you need to run it from a
repeating Schedule every 1 minute, so it catches the message window before
you send it, and changes the account while you're writing.

You need to enter the name of each such account/category, each in its own
set of "quotes" and separated by commas, in the otherAccountNames property
list braces, like this: {"Correspondence", "(e-mail address removed)"}. Some
people name their mail accounts as the actual email address, some give
descriptive names. You must use whatever the names are as they appear in
Tools/Accounts/Mail, without the (POP) or (IMAP) or (Exchange) description.

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
YouTalk <http://tinyurl.com/bzcrjy> <-- Entourage mailing list
Twitter: follow <http://twitter.com/entouragehelp>