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Re: (OT) Outlook Express email setup
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Re: (OT) Outlook Express email setup


  • Subject: Re: (OT) Outlook Express email setup
  • From: Mike Cohen <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:45:10 -0400

I just did a quick test with AppleScript - 'tell application "Microsoft
Entourage" to make new POP account' works, so it should be possible to make
it fill in the account details as well.

On 4/29/02 6:00 AM, "Jens Bauer" <email@hidden> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I don't know what to do about this; wishing they'd kept to the Internet
> Config standards, to save me and others for some trouble.
>
> Does anybody know how to set up the email settings in Outlook Express
> programmatically ?
>
> I've used Internet Config, which *works* the very first time Outlook
> Express is started.
> It seems to me that it:
>
> 1: If no settings file exist, it copies the settings from Internet Config.
> 2: Whenever the user makes changes in Internet Config they're ignored.
> 3: Whenever the user changes the email settings from within OE, it
> overwrites the Internet Config.
>
> Is the solution to just delete the outlook express settings each time I'm
> changing Internet Config ?
>
> I'd like to recommend to those people developing internet applications to
> *USE INTERNET CONFIG*, please!
> (This includes Microsoft as well.)
>
>
> Love,
> Jens

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