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Automation script to set up Mail.app account

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Posted over 9 years ago

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I need an automation script, AppleScript or Javascript Automation, for OS X 10.10 to set up an email account in Mail.app. It needs to set the incoming and outgoing mail settings as well as select the proper SMTP server for the account. Attached is an AppleScript that works on OS X 10.9 and below but errors out on Yosemite; [login to view URL] says; "Your SMTP account could not be created: Mail got an error: AppleEvent handler failed." AppleScript Editor says; "error "Can’t set smtp server of {button returned:\"Ok\"} to false." number -10006 from «class dact» of {button returned:"Ok"}" See attached AppleScript
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Hi, After some fixes, the creation of the account worked (I can send a screenshot if you require). But it fails when setting the smtp server, at following instruction: set smtpsrv to getsmtpserver(maildomain, emaillogin) tell application "Mail" to set smtp server of newacct to "[login to view URL]" return smtpsrv I don't understand why your script tries to set the smtp server to "[login to view URL]" instead of using the smtpsrv variable just created. But maybe you have a reason for doing this, I don't know. Feel free to ask further information. Kind regards, Mike
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