Reply From the RIGHT email address

[w-time]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: imap

Hi Guys - can you help.

I have a few email addresses which I use. Let's call them (e-mail address removed), (e-mail address removed) & (e-mail address removed).

So I can access them using webmail from a single login when away from my mac, A has a POP rule to collect emails from B & C.

When I login to Webmail in account A and reply to an email sent to A, B or C, it is sent with the FROM email address set correctly (ie A, B or C as appropriate).

In Entourage, I can access emails at A, B and C as separate accounts. When I reply the email is sent FROM A, B or C as appropriate.

BUT: I want to receive all emails into entourage just using the A account, so it behaves in the same way as Webmail. (Don't tell me to just use webmail as it's more complicated than that!)

Specifically I want to use a single Inbox and for Entourage to select the correct email address to send the email FROM when I reply to a message. I want it to send the email from B when I'm replying to an email sent to B and to C when I'm replying to an email sent to C.

Any advice on how to configure Entourage. Thanks

 

[Ed Kimball]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: imap

Hi Guys - can you help.

I have a few email addresses which I use. Let's call them (e-mail address removed),
(e-mail address removed) & (e-mail address removed).

So I can access them using webmail from a single login when away from my mac,
A has a POP rule to collect emails from B & C.

When I login to Webmail in account A and reply to an email sent to A, B or C,
it is sent with the FROM email address set correctly (ie A, B or C as
appropriate).

In Entourage, I can access emails at A, B and C as separate accounts. When I
reply the email is sent FROM A, B or C as appropriate.

BUT: I want to receive all emails into entourage just using the A account, so
it behaves in the same way as Webmail. (Don't tell me to just use webmail as
it's more complicated than that!)

Specifically I want to use a single Inbox and for Entourage to select the
correct email address to send the email FROM when I reply to a message. I want
it to send the email from B when I'm replying to an email sent to B and to C
when I'm replying to an email sent to C.

Any advice on how to configure Entourage. Thanks

I infer from your message that B and C are imap accounts and that A is POP.
You can do this by creating a custom view instead of pulling all the
messages into Account A. Use the Find command to Find all messages from
Account A, B, and C and then saving the results as a Custom View. Replying
to messages from the Custom View should behave the way you wish.

Hope this helps.

 

[w-time]

Thanks Ed.

Not quite though.

In webmail I see emails from A, B and C together in the same account. When i reply to an email sent to A, it is sent from A and so on.

A is IMAP but B & C are POP.

In webmail, because A is IMAP it is sync'd with webmail. When I delete an email in entourage it is deleted in Webmail etc.

What I want to do is download the emails into entourage from the A account, but when I click to reply, that Entourage knows that it should send the email FROM an the B email address or C email address.

Now I can't just configure entourage with B & C in the normal way as I'll loose the combined view in Webmail (and in reality there are 20-30 of these so it is a real issue).

 

[Adam Bailey]

What I want to do is download the emails into entourage from the A account,
but when I click to reply, that Entourage knows that it should send the email
FROM an the B email address or C email address.

An AppleScript can do this.

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set theMsg to item 1 of (get current messages)
set account of theMsg to POP account "ACCOUNT_NAME" -- or POP
end tell

Replace "ACCOUNT_NAME" with the name of the account. Now if you attach
this script to a rule, messages will be associated with the appropriate
account.

HOWEVER, I'm not sure this will work for messages on an IMAP server,
since you're essentially contradicting Entourage. Try it with a test
message before you go all-out.

Now I can't just configure entourage with B & C in the normal way as I'll
loose the combined view in Webmail (and in reality there are 20-30 of these so it is a real issue).

You still need to configure them as accounts with SMTP details, but
leave the incoming details empty. That will create send-only accounts.

See <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/accounts/send_only.html>.