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Microsoft Outlook is awesome...except (like most MS apps these days) it's bloated. With all that bloat, some seemingly simple features get missed. Outlook allows you to add multiple "Information Services" - one for each email account. I have many email accounts - one for work - one for home - one for my cell phone - and others. It's super easy to check all my email, but darn near impossible to control which account sends the email.

Enter activateService. All of Outlook's magic is neatly tucked away in the windows Registry. Neatly tucked? Perhaps buried in a mess better describes it. Either way, activateService sorts it out and allows you to control, via command-line, which information service sends your email, and which signature is added to email by default.

Warning! This utility changes the Registry, and is beta software. If you're brave enough, I'd love your help testing. As far as I can tell, everything activateService changes is immediately recoverable through Outlook, and it makes best efforts to backup original settings before proceeding. (It won't write anything until it successfully reads it first.) Still, use at your own risk! (I use it myself daily, if that helps at all.)

Hopefully, the help output below will be everything you need to understand the usage.

Requirements

  • Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Outlook. I run it on Windows 2000 and Office 2000 SR-1. I've done my best to research where other versions of windows store this stuff, but I can't test other versions. It should be fine on Win98 and WinXP, as well as Office XP. Please let me know your experience on other versions.

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activateService_0.01.zip (36kb) v0.01, July 31, 2003

Usage

activateService v0.01 beta, Jul 31 2003
Copyright (c) 2003 Rob Kodey, http://www.Kodey.com/software

  Display or change the order your MS Outlook Services process the mail you
  send, allowing you to control the sender of outgoing mail.

Usage:
  activateService [Switches]...

Switches:
  -s, -service NAME     The Service to activate (ie bring to the top of the
                        list).  If the NAME substring matches multiple
                        Services, those Services will be moved to the top
                        preserving their current order.
  -g, -signature NAME   The Signature to activate.  If the NAME substring
                        matches multiple Signatures, the first Signature
                        encountered alphabetically will be activated.
  -i, -ignore-case      Ignore case when matching NAME.
  -t, -test             Test only.  Changes will be indicated, but not saved.
  -u, -uninstall        Remove the backup copy of Services from the registry.
  -?, -help             Show this help screen and exit.


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