Re: Create an e-mail account using apple script
Re: Create an e-mail account using apple script
- Subject: Re: Create an e-mail account using apple script
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 13:04:36 -0700
On 4/20/05 12:24 PM, "David Siberry" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi I am trying to use apple script to create an e-mail account in
> entourage (so that an account is created and all the required fields
> are populated)
>
> Can anyone help?
What exactly is the question? Yes, it is possible, using the usual
make new POP account with properties {name:"Account name", full
name:"Joe Blow", email address:"email@hidden"...} -- record of
properties
or
make new IMAP account with properties {name:"Account name", full
name:"Joe Blow", email address:"email@hidden"...} -- record of
properties
using the properties you find in the dictionary. There were a lot of bugs up
to Entourage X, but they were fixed in 2004.
Do not try to set the ID. All the other properties are settable, but certain
IMAP properties like special IMAP folder (Sent Items etc.) can't be set at
inception (same in the UI): you have to create the account first so it can
connect with the server, then set those folders after the first connection.
You might need help figuring out how default signatures work.
But you can't do much in the way of Exchange accounts on 2004 since the new
WebDAV type of Exchange accounts for 2004 are barely scriptable - hardly any
properties are available. Back in Entourage 10.1.4 thru 10.1.6, Exchange
accounts were implemented as IMAP accounts so more properties (such as were
actually present) were available.
You can set passwords by AppleScript, although you can't get them (a type of
security measure): a rare case of a 'write-only' property. There are one or
two peculiarities with a few more obscure properties where they didn't
provide enough boolean properties to deal with all the checkboxes, but these
are pretty obscure and won't present any problem when setting up for the
first time, only if you later try to turn them off.
So what problem are you hitting?
--
Paul Berkowitz
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