Manually setting the From: field

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I receive mail addressed to various mailboxes from my server, all forwarded to my primary email account. When I respond, I'd like to have the From: field be the addresss the email was originally sent to, NOT the address of the Account I'm using to send the mail with

How can I manually override what will appear in the From field?
 
Use the From field when sending. You can specify this when addressing the
mail.
You can also change the mail address in your account settings.

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Alan Kleymeyer said:
I receive mail addressed to various mailboxes from my server, all
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forwarded to my primary email account. When I respond, I'd like to have the
From: field be the addresss the email was originally sent to, NOT the
address of the Account I'm using to send the mail with.
 
"Alan Kleymeyer" said in
I receive mail addressed to various mailboxes from my server, all
forwarded to my primary email account. When I respond, I'd like to
have the From: field be the addresss the email was originally sent
to, NOT the address of the Account I'm using to send the mail with.

How can I manually override what will appear in the From field?
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I have Outlook 2002. I have several POP3 accounts defined in Outlook. All
POP3 accounts aggregate their incoming e-mail into the single Inbox folder.
You can use rules to move them to their own folders based on the account
through which they were received.

When I reply to a message, OL2002 automatically selects the same account to
send my reply that was used to receive the message. I don't have to do
anything if that default is the behavior that I want. If, however, I want
to send the reply through a different account than through which it was
received then I click on the Accounts toolbar button and pick which account
I want to use. Changing the From field ends up with the recipient seeing
"johndoe on behalf of janedoe" which doesn't look very good, but selecting a
different account to use when sending will show only the From name defined
under that account.
 
You missed one crucial thing here;
The messages get FORWARDED to the mailbox he is sending from so only one
account is set-up here

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"Roady [MVP]" said in news:[email protected]:
You missed one crucial thing here;
The messages get FORWARDED to the mailbox he is sending from so only
one account is set-up here


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Yeah, you're right. I missed that he is really only using a single account
in Outlook. All Outlook sees is just the one e-mail account. The
forwarding service is outside its scope; i.e., Outlook won't know what's
happening on the other side of the mail server to which it connects.
 
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