Outlook needs sending rule that lets you specify email account

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Outlook should have the ability to specify which email account to use for
sending messages which would override the default account for designated
contacts.
The current rules only seem to address incoming emails.

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Davemac1 said:
Outlook should have the ability to specify which email account to use
for sending messages which would override the default account for
designated contacts.
The current rules only seem to address incoming emails.
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So, why not just choose the account when you send the message?
 
For the obvious reason - you have to remember to do it every time. If you
have different email accounts for different purposes, then the ideal is to
assign classes of users to default to those accounts.
Let the computer do the work for you and remember the settings.
 
Better yet, set up a signature for each account that has the account
settings or at least the name to remind you. Then use Word as the editor
and when you switch your signature to match your account, your account is
also switched.

Besides, how would you define a rule that would be configurable to select
your sending account without Outlook mind reading?


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After furious head scratching, Davemac1 asked:

| For the obvious reason - you have to remember to do it every time. If
| you have different email accounts for different purposes, then the
| ideal is to assign classes of users to default to those accounts.
| Let the computer do the work for you and remember the settings.
|
| "Brian Tillman" wrote:
|
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||| Outlook should have the ability to specify which email account to
||| use for sending messages which would override the default account
||| for designated contacts.
||| The current rules only seem to address incoming emails.
||
|| So, why not just choose the account when you send the message?
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|| Brian Tillman
 
Since Outlook includes contacts, the email account coulod be attached to the
contact.
The other option is for a rule to be applied for emails to a domain or a
designated group of users.
 
Davemac1 said:
Since Outlook includes contacts, the email account coulod be attached
to the contact.
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Then how would you ever send to that address with another account?
 
But if it does it automatically, where is the option to override? You are
thinking like a human, computers do what you tell them and are not subject
to whims.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Davemac1 asked:

| You can still override. The point is you noramlly would not want to.
|
| "Brian Tillman" wrote:
|
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||| Since Outlook includes contacts, the email account coulod be
||| attached to the contact.
||
|| Then how would you ever send to that address with another account?
|| --
|| Brian Tillman
 
Are Brian & Milly being deliberately awkward?

Currently Outlook by default sends using your default account and you can
override this when you create the email.

All Dave is asking is that the default is taken from the Contact record and
again can be overridden if you want to use a different account.

Sounds like I have the same situation as Dave, by default I have a number of
Dlists that I send to using different accounts (99.999% of the time the
account for a particular Dlist is always the same). I want the Dlist to hold
the account to use.
 
Brian and Milly are providing you with a FREE support service as a community
service. They don't work for Microsoft. Are you being rude in return?

Judy Gleeson
Acorn Training and Consulting
www.acorntraining.com.au

Everyone - turn on your Advanced Toolbars and learn how to use the Field
Chooser and Group by Box!!
 
Outlook does not provide a per contact sending option.

In the future, please quote the post to which you are replying - it is no
longer available on my server so there is absolutely no context.

Or are you trying to be deliberately unhelpful?


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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, JohnG asked:

| Are Brian & Milly being deliberately awkward?
|
| Currently Outlook by default sends using your default account and you
| can override this when you create the email.
|
| All Dave is asking is that the default is taken from the Contact
| record and again can be overridden if you want to use a different
| account.
|
| Sounds like I have the same situation as Dave, by default I have a
| number of Dlists that I send to using different accounts (99.999% of
| the time the account for a particular Dlist is always the same). I
| want the Dlist to hold the account to use.
 
Milly Staples said:
Outlook does not provide a per contact sending option.
Click to expand...

We know it doesn't, what the original poster amd are saying is that it would
be a useful feature.
In the future, please quote the post to which you are replying - it is no
longer available on my server so there is absolutely no context.
Click to expand...

The message I was replying to was there when I wrote my message - don't know
what happenned after I hit post.

I think if you read my post properly you will see the context
Or are you trying to be deliberately unhelpful?
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Just as helpful as you
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, JohnG asked:

| Are Brian & Milly being deliberately awkward?
|
| Currently Outlook by default sends using your default account and you
| can override this when you create the email.
|
| All Dave is asking is that the default is taken from the Contact
| record and again can be overridden if you want to use a different
| account.
|
| Sounds like I have the same situation as Dave, by default I have a
| number of Dlists that I send to using different accounts (99.999% of
| the time the account for a particular Dlist is always the same). I
| want the Dlist to hold the account to use.
Click to expand...
 
Sorry none.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Joe asked:

| I have Outlook2003 but only Word2002... and I can't choose Word as my
| editor..other ideas?
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Better yet, set up a signature for each account that has the account
|| settings or at least the name to remind you. Then use Word as the
|| editor and when you switch your signature to match your account,
|| your account is also switched.
||
|| Besides, how would you define a rule that would be configurable to
|| select your sending account without Outlook mind reading?
||
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Davemac1 asked:
||
||| For the obvious reason - you have to remember to do it every time.
||| If you have different email accounts for different purposes, then
||| the ideal is to assign classes of users to default to those
||| accounts. Let the computer do the work for you and remember the
||| settings.
|||
||| "Brian Tillman" wrote:
|||
||||
||||| Outlook should have the ability to specify which email account to
||||| use for sending messages which would override the default account
||||| for designated contacts.
||||| The current rules only seem to address incoming emails.
||||
|||| So, why not just choose the account when you send the message?
|||| --
|||| Brian Tillman
 
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