Default Mail Account

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Andy M

When sending an email the default mail account is
selected with no problems.

However when replying or forwarding an email my default
mail account is not used, instead it selects the first
email account listed in my box.

Any ideas why this happens?

Thx
 
-----Original Message-----
On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 22:16:39 GMT,"Andy M"
<[email protected]> penned this whopper in

The design is for it to reply and forward using the same account the email
was received on. Just seems less confusing that way.

--
"Belief is not the beginning but the end of all knowledge."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832); German poet and dramatist.
HAND!
Mike
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Thxs Mike

The problem is that you send your first email using your
default account and when you respond to the reply it
Outlook selects the email account it was received on. If
you don't realise the recepient is then faced with 2
different email addresses, both from you which confuses a
number of people!
 
Okay - when you have composed your message, use the drop-down arrow by the
Send button to "send using" and select your sending account from there.

There is no way that Outlook can be configured to guess the account that you
want to use. You must select it yourself if you want to use an account
other than the one on which the item was received.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.


After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
Andy M <[email protected]> asked:

| Milly apologies
|
| I'm using Outlook 2000 SR-1 (9.0.0.3821)
| Internet Mail Only
|
| Thx
|| -----Original Message-----
|| What version and mode of Outlook are you using? Posting this first
|| would have probably saved a few messages. If you are using Outlook
|| 98 or 2000, look under Help->About - second line should say Internet
|| Mail Only or Corporate or Workgroup.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
||
||
|| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
|| Andy M <[email protected]> asked:
||
|||| -----Original Message-----
|||| On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 22:16:39 GMT,"Andy M"
|||| <[email protected]> penned this whopper in
|||| ||||
||||| When sending an email the default mail account is
||||| selected with no problems.
|||||
||||| However when replying or forwarding an email my default
||||| mail account is not used, instead it selects the first
||||| email account listed in my box.
|||||
||||| Any ideas why this happens?
|||||
||||| Thx
|||||
||||
|||| The design is for it to reply and forward using the same account
|||| the email was received on. Just seems less confusing that way.
||||
|||| --
|||| "Belief is not the beginning but the end of all knowledge."
|||| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832); German poet and
|||| dramatist. HAND!
|||| Mike
|||| .
|||
||| Thxs Mike
|||
||| The problem is that you send your first email using your
||| default account and when you respond to the reply it
||| Outlook selects the email account it was received on. If
||| you don't realise the recepient is then faced with 2
||| different email addresses, both from you which confuses a
||| number of people!
||
||
|| .
 
Millie we appear to have moved away from the orginal
question!

Basically it is this... When I send an email Outlook
automatically selects my default email and if I want to
change this email account I can do - no problems. The
problem arises when the recipient then sends me a further
email or when I wish to respond or forward an email.

When I select forward or reply Outlook does not select my
default email. It selects the email account from the top
of my list of available accounts and sends it out using
that.

What I can't understand is why it only uses default
settings for sending new emails but for others that are
replies or forwards it doesn't.

Thxs
Andy
-----Original Message-----
Okay - when you have composed your message, use the drop- down arrow by the
Send button to "send using" and select your sending account from there.

There is no way that Outlook can be configured to guess the account that you
want to use. You must select it yourself if you want to use an account
other than the one on which the item was received.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.


After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
Andy M <[email protected]> asked:

| Milly apologies
|
| I'm using Outlook 2000 SR-1 (9.0.0.3821)
| Internet Mail Only
|
| Thx
|| -----Original Message-----
|| What version and mode of Outlook are you using? Posting this first
|| would have probably saved a few messages. If you are using Outlook
|| 98 or 2000, look under Help->About - second line should say Internet
|| Mail Only or Corporate or Workgroup.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
||
||
|| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
|| Andy M <[email protected]> asked:
||
|||| -----Original Message-----
|||| On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 22:16:39 GMT,"Andy M"
|||| <[email protected]> penned this whopper in
|||| ||||
||||| When sending an email the default mail account is
||||| selected with no problems.
|||||
||||| However when replying or forwarding an email my default
||||| mail account is not used, instead it selects the first
||||| email account listed in my box.
|||||
||||| Any ideas why this happens?
|||||
||||| Thx
|||||
||||
|||| The design is for it to reply and forward using the same account
|||| the email was received on. Just seems less confusing that way.
||||
|||| --
|||| "Belief is not the beginning but the end of all knowledge."
|||| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832); German poet and
|||| dramatist. HAND!
|||| Mike
|||| .
|||
||| Thxs Mike
|||
||| The problem is that you send your first email using your
||| default account and when you respond to the reply it
||| Outlook selects the email account it was received on. If
||| you don't realise the recepient is then faced with 2
||| different email addresses, both from you which confuses a
||| number of people!
||
||
|| .


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