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: email@hidden
- Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 22:46:22 -0400
Thanks so much for your quick feedback - - - that was _exactly_ what I needed. I do have 1 more question, however - - - is there a way to do this configuring while hiding the application from the user? (We're trying to do an ISP configuration CD, and there are subsequent things that we need to configure - - our hope is to not distract the user with Outlook popping up in the middle of the configuration process)
In a message dated 10/13/2002 8:10:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, email@hidden writes:
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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.
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Which version of OE are we discussing here? 5.x? So by username/password you
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mean for a specific email account? OE 5.x doesn't use username and password
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for the app itself, since that was no security at all in OE 4.5, far too
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easily breached. OE 5 expects you to use OS 9's Multiple Users if you want
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passwords, etc. (And naturally if used in Classic i OS X, separate users are
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taken for granted.)
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Assuming you mean OE 5 and an email account, is this a POP account? we
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really need more info from you. Is the account already configured or is that
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what you're trying to do?
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tell application "Outlook Express"
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make new POP account with properties {name:"Earthlink Account", email
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address:"email@hidden", full name:"Joe Blow", SMTP
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server:"mail.earthlink.com", POP server:"mail.earthlink.com", POP
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ID:"jblow", password:"foobar123"}
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end tell
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There are another dozen or so properties if you need them. Just check the
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dictionary. If it's an IMAP account, check 'IMAP account in the dictionary.
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password is a rare case of a "write-only" property: you can set it but not
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get it. (The idea is that if you could get the password by Applescript you
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could use it to break into all sorts of places on the computer which use the
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same password.)
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I hope this is what you're after: you didn't make it too clear.
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Paul Berkowitz
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