OS X Mail: Remove entry from outgoing mail server list

[John Faughnan]

When editing or establishing an email account in OS X mail, one can go
to the advanced tab and choose an outgoing mail server.

One can add a new outgoing mail server from the list of available mail
servers.

One cannot, apparently, REMOVE an entry from this list.

Anyone know of a workaround?

john

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[Dan Lowe]

John Faughnan <jfau...@spamcop.net> wrote:
>
> One cannot, apparently, REMOVE an entry from this list.
>
> Anyone know of a workaround?

There's an Applescript to do this.

Library:Scripts:Mail Scripts:Manage SMTP Servers.scpt

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and he won't bother you for weeks.

[John Faughnan]

Dan Lowe <d...@ingeni.us> wrote in message news:<T6PT9.29460$A%3.38...@ord-read.news.verio.net>...

> John Faughnan <jfau...@spamcop.net> wrote:
> > One cannot, apparently, REMOVE an entry from this list.
> > Anyone know of a workaround?

> There's an Applescript to do this.
> Library:Scripts:Mail Scripts:Manage SMTP Servers.scpt

Terrific tip. I have the script icon on my top menubar, so it was easy
to scroll to this and run it. It didn't list my authsmtp servers,
which I thought was a string match bug, but in the source I see:

-- Don't add to the list of smtp servers to potentially delete
-- if the server is actively being used by an account

So I made sure that one of my duplicated entries was not in use and I
was able to remove it.

This is the first of the bundled scripts I've found a use for, but on
browsing the collection I see some file renaming scripts that look
quite useful. I think I'll have to dust off my my very modest
AppleScript skills, unused for over 10 years.

Thanks!

john

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