Re: Way to configure Outlook Express user/pass?
Re: Way to configure Outlook Express user/pass?
- Subject: Re: Way to configure Outlook Express user/pass?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 18:10:36 -0700
On 10/13/02 5:35 PM, "email@hidden" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Can anyone tell me if there's a way I can configure the username/password to
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Outlook Express from Applescript? I've got a client who's ISP install CD puts
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Outlook Express on the user's hard-drive, but it's not configured.
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I vaguely recall something about an "OE ISP Settings" folder that ISP's can
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send along with Outlook that somehow does configuring. Has anyone used that
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technique to configure Outlook? I'm concerned that I might not be able to
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configure the username/password info.
Which version of OE are we discussing here? 5.x? So by username/password you
mean for a specific email account? OE 5.x doesn't use username and password
for the app itself, since that was no security at all in OE 4.5, far too
easily breached. OE 5 expects you to use OS 9's Multiple Users if you want
passwords, etc. (And naturally if used in Classic i OS X, separate users are
taken for granted.)
Assuming you mean OE 5 and an email account, is this a POP account? we
really need more info from you. Is the account already configured or is that
what you're trying to do?
tell application "Outlook Express"
make new POP account with properties {name:"Earthlink Account", email
address:"email@hidden", full name:"Joe Blow", SMTP
server:"mail.earthlink.com", POP server:"mail.earthlink.com", POP
ID:"jblow", password:"foobar123"}
end tell
There are another dozen or so properties if you need them. Just check the
dictionary. If it's an IMAP account, check 'IMAP account in the dictionary.
password is a rare case of a "write-only" property: you can set it but not
get it. (The idea is that if you could get the password by Applescript you
could use it to break into all sorts of places on the computer which use the
same password.)
I hope this is what you're after: you didn't make it too clear.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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