Switching outgoing servers

[ryan_m]

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

Hi all - I have a POP email account for work. Normally I use the SMTP server that is associated with my POP account for sending. But when I'm at home, my home ISP requires that I use it's own SMTP server. I used to use Apple mail and it allows you to have more than one outgoing server and you can easily change it on the fly so I can send through the apprepriate server wherever I am. But I just switched from Apple Mail to Entourage 2008 and I don't see this facility. I know you can set up multiple identies, but I don't want a whole new set of messages, address book, etc. I just want to have a different outgoing server. Is there an easy way to change this back and forth?

Ryan

 

[Barry Wainwright]

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

Hi all - I have a POP email account for work. Normally I use the SMTP server
that is associated with my POP account for sending. But when I'm at home, my
home ISP requires that I use it's own SMTP server. I used to use Apple mail
and it allows you to have more than one outgoing server and you can easily
change it on the fly so I can send through the apprepriate server wherever I
am. But I just switched from Apple Mail to Entourage 2008 and I don't see
this facility. I know you can set up multiple identies, but I don't want a
whole new set of messages, address book, etc. I just want to have a different
outgoing server. Is there an easy way to change this back and forth?

Ryan

set up another mail account with ONLY the smtp server & email address
information. Do not include any 'receiving mail server' information and
make sure the account is excluded form the 'send and receive all'
schedule.

this account (together with your main account) will appear in the 'from'
field as a selectable drop-down menu when you create a new message and
can easily be selected on a message-by-message basis.

I have also used an applescript to change the smtp server settings hen I
moved between work and home:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set accountList to every POP account whose SMTP server contains
"HOMESERVER.com"
if accountList ‚ {} then
repeat with anAcct in accountList
set SMTP server of anAcct to "WORKSERVER.com"
end repeat
end if
end tell

 

[ryan_m]

Thanks for the info, I got this to work