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Hello again. I forgot another problem I'm having with Windows Mail. Using
the Options tab I have specified that a particular signature be used with
mail from one particular account, but when I write an email from that account
the default signature appears instead of the one I specified.
Any help appreciated!
 
Turkk said:
Hello again. I forgot another problem I'm having with Windows Mail. Using
the Options tab I have specified that a particular signature be used with
mail from one particular account, but when I write an email from that
account
the default signature appears instead of the one I specified.
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If you change the account after opening the composition window the signature
button does not appear. Put the signature button on the toolbar.
 
Dear Frank,
Many thanks but I'm afraid I don't quite understand what you're saying. I
have two accounts set up in Windows Mail: let's call them Fred and George.
Fred is the default account, and his mail goes to the Inbox. George's mail
goes to another folder called 'George's Mail' (this part works fine). But
when George goes to 'George's Mail' and wants to write an email, he first of
all has to change the return address from Fred to George (this seems silly:
why isn't it automatic, or why can't one set up a rule to do it
automatically?). But changing this doesn't also change the signature from
Fred to George--even though I have also set up a rule in
Options-Signatures-Advanced that says mail going from 'George's Mail' should
be signed 'George'.
All that the signature button does is insert 'George' without removing
'Fred', so I end up with mail signed 'GeorgeFred' (plus addresses, phone
numbers, etc.).
Is the only way around this to uncheck 'Add signature to all messages'?
This is a very poor solution...
 
Turkk said:
Dear Frank,
Many thanks but I'm afraid I don't quite understand what you're saying. I
have two accounts set up in Windows Mail: let's call them Fred and George.
Fred is the default account, and his mail goes to the Inbox. George's
mail
goes to another folder called 'George's Mail' (this part works fine). But
when George goes to 'George's Mail' and wants to write an email, he first
of
all has to change the return address from Fred to George (this seems
silly:
why isn't it automatic, or why can't one set up a rule to do it
automatically?). But changing this doesn't also change the signature from
Fred to George--even though I have also set up a rule in
Options-Signatures-Advanced that says mail going from 'George's Mail'
should
be signed 'George'.
All that the signature button does is insert 'George' without removing
'Fred', so I end up with mail signed 'GeorgeFred' (plus addresses, phone
numbers, etc.).
Is the only way around this to uncheck 'Add signature to all messages'?
This is a very poor solution...
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Highlight the signature you want to replace and then use the Signature
button.

OE always uses the default account for a new message. For a reply it uses
the account that downloaded the message.
 
You may want to switch to Windows Live Mail.
You won't need any message rules since WLM has a
separate inbox for each account. When you start a new
email, whichever account folder is highlighted (last
accessed), that will be the 'From' identity. This is unlike
WM which always uses the default account.

Get WLM at http://get.live.com/betas/maildesktop_betas

Gary VanderMolen
 
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