Re: Way to adjust Outlook Express Preferences?
Re: Way to adjust Outlook Express Preferences?
- Subject: Re: Way to adjust Outlook Express Preferences?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 18:59:09 -0800
On 11/26/01 3:29 PM, "email@hidden" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Can anyone tell me if it's technically possible, via Applescript, to open up
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Outlook Express and change the user's SMTP and POP account settings in the
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Outlooks Preferences, and then save those preferences?
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The reason I ask is because I tried having the scripteditor record me
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manually making those changes, but it didn't record anything I did in the
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preferences screen. That made me think that perhaps Applescript couldn't
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adjust those settings.
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Yes, you can make those settings via AppleScript. Look in the OE AppleScript
Dictionary under 'POP account', and you'll see every option, including SMTP
options, there. OE is not a recordable app, however: that's why you can't
record it in Script Editor.
You might want to look at my SMTP Locations script for automatically
switching SMTP settings to the correct location in Location Manager, to help
you script this. My script is for Entourage, but most or all of it should
work for OE if you change the tell block to 'application "Outlook Express"'.
You can find the script at
AppleScript Central
<
http://www.applescriptcentral.com/>
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Paul Berkowitz