When you click on Reply to create a new message the reply is sent using the
account the original message was sent to. Is there any Outlook setting for
changing this - so any reply would automatically sent using your default
account although the original message might have been sent to a different
account?

If not, how would you structure a macro to do this? Can you get a macro to
run when the reply button is clicked? Or is there a way of intercepting a
message as it goes to the Outbox and changing the account if it is not
already the default account?

Grateful for any advice.

No, there's no such setting. Also, Outlook doesn't provide any direct way to change the account for an outgoing message. See
http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=889 for various workarounds that might fit your scenario.

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"simonc" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:F8CECE55-0447-420E-94E4-(E-Mail Removed)...
> When you click on Reply to create a new message the reply is sent using the
> account the original message was sent to. Is there any Outlook setting for
> changing this - so any reply would automatically sent using your default
> account although the original message might have been sent to a different
> account?
>
> If not, how would you structure a macro to do this? Can you get a macro to
> run when the reply button is clicked? Or is there a way of intercepting a
> message as it goes to the Outbox and changing the account if it is not
> already the default account?
>
> Grateful for any advice.

No, you can't configure Outlook to use a different account when replying.
But you can programmatically change the account by executing one of the
account entries in the menu list:

Dim objCBs As Office.CommandBars, objCBPU As Office.CommandBarPopup,
objCBC As Office.CommandBarControl
Set objCBPU = ActiveInspector.CommandBars.FiÂ*ndControl(, 31224) 'GET THE
ACCOUNTS POPUP MENU
For Each objCBC In objCBPU.Controls
If objCBC.Caption = "Your account name" Then
objCBC.Execute
Exit For
End If
Next

However, this isn't very different from simply choosing the account yourself
- it maybe saves one click. You could have this code run automatically by
firing it during a certain event, but aside from the Item_Send event - at
which point you *can't* change the account anyway because it's committed -
there's no real good event to change the account.

It might be possible though to change the account during Item_Open, but
you'd need to trap the opening of all e-mails so that you can get a handle to
this event by setting a reference to the reply message *inside* the message
you are replying to (at the point of clicking the Reply button). However, I
think I tried this before and couldn't execute the account menu item during
Item_Open.

This may be more trouble than it's worth, IMHO.

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"simonc" wrote:

> When you click on Reply to create a new message the reply is sent using the
> account the original message was sent to. Is there any Outlook setting for
> changing this - so any reply would automatically sent using your default
> account although the original message might have been sent to a different
> account?
>
> If not, how would you structure a macro to do this? Can you get a macro to
> run when the reply button is clicked? Or is there a way of intercepting a
> message as it goes to the Outbox and changing the account if it is not
> already the default account?
>
> Grateful for any advice.