"Jim Richards" said in news:
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OK, my first question DID NOT get me an answer that I can use so I
will rephrase my question. How do I set Outlook so that when I launch
it it displays the folders and messages for the sub-account - NOT THE
MASTER ACCOUNT? Outlook Express uses an Identity Change function.
Surely Outlook has something similar. TIA, Jim Richards
You don't mention the *type* of e-mail accounts. There are no
*sub*accounts. There are not master accounts. There is one default
account (used when sending e-mails). They are all equally just e-mail
accounts. You can select which one is the default (for sending). All
POP3 accounts get aggregated into the one Inbox folder. If you don't
want them all to have their received e-mails go into one Inbox, use a
rule to move them to another folder based on through which account the
e-mail was received. HTTPmail accounts each get their own information
store (i.e., their own root folder in the tree view and their own .pst
file). If you want to send using a different account than the default
one (for new e-mail) or a different account than through which the
e-mail was received (for replies and forwards), use the Accounts toolbar
button to change the sending account. The Accounts toolbar button
became available in Outlook 2002. You don't mention your particular
version of Outlook, a very important fact considering the reason there
are different versions is because they provide different feature sets.
Before Outlook 2002, I think you had to use Send Using to select a
different account.
Outlook Express has identities because it hails from the days of Windows
9x which had no security. Different users all started Windows 9x
without having to login, so identities were added (to Internet Mail and
News which got renamed to Outlook Express) to help users keep their
e-mail separate of each other. Under NT-based Windows, each user gets
their own separate login and their own profile directory for which they
alone (besides administrators) have privileges to the files therein, and
that's where your Outlook information store (.pst file) gets stored by
default. So users' e-mails are separated because they login under
different accounts which have separate permission-based profile
directories where their e-mail files are stored. Identities are not
needed under NT-based versions of Windows. Outlook is Microsoft's
business solution for a PIM (personal information manager) that includes
e-mail and is best used under an NT-based Windows. Outlook Express is
their freebie version for e-mail and news and developed on their early
insecure "personal" versions of Windows.
You have 5 accounts defined but want Outlook to only use one of them
(for both receiving and sending e-mails). So why are the other 4
defined at all? Do you want Outlook to *automatically* receive and
always send using one account and *manually* poll the other accounts
yourself? Then select the account you want to use for sending as the
default e-mail account. Then go under Tools -> Send/Receive Settings ->
Define Send/Receive Groups -> select your group containing the targeted
e-mail accounts -> Edit -> and deselect the option to receive and send
for each e-mail account that you do NOT want Outlook to automatically
poll. You will then have to use the drop-down menu under Send/Receive
toolbar to manually select the other accounts when you want to poll them
for new messages. You can use the Accounts or Send Using button to
manually select a different account than the default when sending.
