Changing outgoing account

[soniajane]

Hello

I'm dipping my toes in uncharted territory here, but I want to be able to change the From/Reply-To and X-Account attributes for some outgoing emails. Basically, if I mail (or reply) to anyone on employer's domain, I want to make sure that my email is sent from that domain too. I have an account set up but it's a pain to remember to change the account manually on each mail when I create it, otherwise it goes from my personal address. At the moment my failure rate is probably about 20%.

So - I've set an outgoing mail filter to pick up the cases (where recipients include that domain) and to run the little script that I wrote as follows:

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{ Quit if something goes wrong
Set $OnErrorGoTo Quit

Set $fm "me <me@myworkdomain.com>"

DeleteHeader "From:" %m
AddHeader %m "From:" $fm
DeleteHeader "Reply-To:" %m
AddHeader %m "Reply-To:" $fm
DeleteHeader "X-Account:" %m
AddHeader %m "X-Account:" "Domain account"

Set $a "Something ran!"
AppendBody $a " "
AppendBody $a "Bye!"
Beep
MessageBox $a

:Quit
Exit

Now, I'm getting the messagebox coming up when I send test mails so I know it's running - but when I check the headers of my sent emails, nothing has changed.

I can't figure out why, but I'm very new to scripts so maybe it's something obvious. Any ideas?

Thank you

~ Added code tags ... Eric ~

[MarkB]

Two suggestions. First change %m to %message throughout. Second, investigate whether you can accomplish what you need with an outgoing filter alone (and no script). A filter can "Change Account To" (i.e., change the X-Account header), "Remove Header" and "Add Header." For example, remove header From: and add header From: me <me@myworkdomain.com>.

[soniajane]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the reply. I did try using filters alone to change account and remove/add header elements as you suggest, but for reasons I couldn't figure out it just doesn't work.

I scanned the forums and it seems others have had this same difficulty which is where I got the idea of using scripts.

I'll try the %message tip though. Watch this space.

[MarkB]

Here I was, puzzling why emails in my Sent folder lately appeared to be coming from a secondary account and address. Of course, the answer is that I forgot to delete the outgoing filter that had been set up for testing. What a doofus.

Any news, soniajane?

[soniajane]

Ooops - sorry for not getting back as I'd promised.

But I don't have good news. Changing to %message didn't seem to make any difference. I still can't get it to work.

The filter seems to trigger OK, and strangely enough if I send a message to myself (on my work email address), when I hit 'reply' it does tee up the correct return address which suggests that the change of account is somehow working.

But even if I do the remove and add header information on 'from' and 'reply to' - in the sent email the header information still shows my personal email address instead of my work one, which is what I'm trying to avoid.

I don't know if I've explained that clearly - it makes sense to me, but then I'm in my own head

[MarkB]

For me, the outgoing filter described below appears to do what you want. Names and addresses have been changed obviously. Mail sent from Poco to a webmail account looks like it came from the "work" account and address. Replies from the webmail look right. Replies to the reply from Poco to webmail look right.

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Outgoing Filter

Filter messages for My Personal Account Matching all characters
Search Account name for My Personal Account
Perform change account to My Business Account
and
Perform remove header From:
and
Perform add header From: me <me@myworkaddress.com>
and
Perform remove header Reply-To:
and
Perform add header Reply-To: me@myworkaddress.com


The "change account to" can probably be removed. The account header makes no sense to the recipient, and the recipient's mailer seems to remove it from replies anyway.