Re: Setting the default signature in Entourage
Re: Setting the default signature in Entourage
- Subject: Re: Setting the default signature in Entourage
- From: Chris Garaffa <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:43:32 -0400
On Oct 26, 2004, at 10:44 PM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
On 10/26/04 7:04 PM, "Chris Garaffa" <email@hidden> wrote:
(And first make sure that signature 1 is really the one you want.
Check its
name.)
It is, unless there's a chance that with a signature file guaranteed
to
contain only one signature it could throw an error. Just to make sure,
I tried:
set sigRef to (first item of every signature)
Which returns the same error.
Just try
get name of signature 1
Does that work? You're sure there actually _is_ a signature 1?
I'm sure. That returns "TracyLocke.com" which is the name of the
signature that's set up in the Signatures file the app copies over
before launching Entourage.
Unless there' some bug with Exchange accounts I don't know about,
that
should work when you later specify the default signature choice.
Looks like this is a bug with Exchange accounts specifically. I just
tried creating a new POP account, with the relevant signature code
looking like this:
set sigRef to signature 1
make new POP account with properties{ (*POP-related stuff here*),
default signature type: other, default signature choice: sigRef}
I wish I'd caught that before they released 10.1.6, maybe a fix could
have made it in.
10.1.6 is just a security release. I'll check to see if it works with
Entourage 2004.
But there's a way around it with 10.1.6: Exchange accounts, although
they
have extra properties, are really implemented as IMAP accounts.
Furthermore
(don't know if it was a bug or not) you can actually access them as
IMAP
accounts by AppleScript. So try this: after you make the account
without the
signature choice, see if you can then
set theAcct to IMAP account (gLastName & "'s Exchange Account")
set default signature choice of theAcct to signature 1
I _know_ you can set the default signature choice of an IMAP account
just
fine (as with POP).
Almost. No error this time, but the signature is still set to "None."
Before the set default signature line, I inserted
display dialog (name of signature 1) as string, which gave me the
correct signature name.
I also tried
set default signature choice of theAcct to first signature whose name
is "TracyLocke.com", which is the name of the signature. Still no luck.
Enjoy this while you can. ;-) Entourage 2004's Exchange accounts are
not
also IMAP accounts, and they have far, far fewer AppleScript
properties (so
far). I will have an opportunity soon to see if I can create an
Exchange
account in 2004, and will see if default signature choice now can be
set.
I'm curious to see if this works, as we're scheduled to move to 2004
sometime in the first quarter of '05.
Thanks again Paul
--
Chris Garaffa
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