Re: Redirect sends to cc recipients again. Bug?

On 8/10/07 6:53 PM, in article C2E28ECF.1A17%geoffb3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Geoff
B" <geoffb3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Since I've had trouble with IMAP, I use POP with a rule, like the one
suggested in the MVP FAQ at
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/cc_bcc_fw.html (Question 4, Option
2), to redirect outgoing mail to an email account that I only open/receive
on my other computer. (On that computer, I have a rule that anything
received from that account gets moved to Sent Items.)

Let me make sure I understand what you want to do.

Problem. Create an outgoing message and have a copy of that sent to another
email address.

Solution. Try using this script instead of redirecting. It will create a
new message with your email address as a Bcc. You just have to remember to
use it to create a new message.

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set newMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {BCC
recipients:"johndoe@xxxxxxxxxxx"}
open newMessage
end tell

Copy and paste this into the Script Editor. Next, edit the script. Replace
johndoe@xxxxxxxxxxx with your email address. Assign a shortcut for easy
use.

Here's a slightly different version of the script. This one will address the
message to a particular person. This is useful if you send a lot of messages
to this person.

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set newMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {to
recipients:"BigBird@xxxxxxxxxxx", BCC recipients:"johndoe@xxxxxxxxxxx"}
open newMessage
end tell

How-to add a shortcut to a script:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/script/add_shortcuts.html>

Now, after doing this for months, I was terribly upset and embarrassed to
realize that Redirect re-sends the email to anyone who was a CC on the
original email, so they get the same mail twice, the second time with my
"secret" account as the "To" address. I could find no way to strip CC
recipients before redirecting using a rule, which would address this bug.

Help! The other options listed on the MVP FAQ are not possible or too
unwieldy for me.

Do you have difficulty copy/pasting scripts? I can post the scripts on the
Entourage Help Page for download if that would help.

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>


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