Automatic Account selection in replies/forwards

[Michael Gordon]

I am writing to ask if anyone can help me with the
following.
When Outlook2003 clients select reply/reply all/forward
to a mail item, I would like to automatically specify the
account to use (Microsoft Exchange Server), which might
be different than the one picked by Outlook for a
particular mail item.

This is needed due to the configuration we have.
We use Exchange 2003 for internal mail and also for
sending external mail with SMTP.
However, we use an ISP for actually hosting external mail.
The Outlook clients are configured to use POP3 for
receiving external mail from the ISP. Unfortunately,
Outlook 2003 will use the account (transport) that the
mail item was received via as the account for
replying/forwarding, even if the Microsoft Exchange
Server is the primary (default) account.

Thanks.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

If all the accounts are configured in that Outlook profile then you can
access the account as a sending account by getting the menu/toolbar you
would use to select an alternate sending account in the UI as a command bar
button object and calling its Execute method in the code the handles replies
and forwards.

 

[Michael Gordon]

I'm new to this; would you mind providing some more
detail on this. Thanks.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Sure. For an example of how to get and use a commandbar button in code see
the second and third VBA examples at
http://www.slovaktech.com/code_samples.htm#SendReceive

Getting and using any other button is very similar.