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[Guest]

Greetings,

I use Outlook 2003 and have my default email account and multiple additional
accounts. When I receive email via a non-default account, I would like my
reply to automatically be sent via that same account w/o my having to select
it. Thank you.

 

[Guest]

POP/SMTP email accounts.

 

[Guest]

Outlook isn't having a problem sending the reply via any of my accounts, so I
don't understand your point. When I receive an email via my SFF account, I
simply want Outlook to automatically select the SFF account when I click
Reply on the received email. This ensures the other person gets my email
with the SFF Reply-To e-ddress rather than my default account Reply-To
e-ddress. Instead, Outlook seems to randomly select from my accounts when I
click Reply.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Outlook isn't having a problem sending the reply via any of my
accounts, so I don't understand your point.

You said:

When I reply, my default account is usually selected automatically,
but sometimes one of my non-default accounts is selected. The latter
really puzzles me.

I was addressing this. It's a sign that, indeed, for that message, Outlook
could not send the message on the acount you selected and it used a
different account. This is an Outlook account to which I refer, not an ISP
account.

When I receive an email
via my SFF account, I simply want Outlook to automatically select the
SFF account when I click Reply on the received email.

Either I don't understand your setup or you're confusing Outlook's concept
of an account with the email addresses your ISP(s) supply. They're not the
same thing. You told me that both of your mail addresses get dumped into a
single mailbox and that you download the messages from there using a single
set up ISP credentials. Outlook, therefore, is aware of only one account
(i.e., mailbox) and there's no distinction between the the addresses as far
as Outlook is concerned, so it can't automatically chose another address,
since the mail wasn't received from distinct mailbox associated with the
other address.

 

[Guest]

Ok, I think I've got it now, Brian, and thank you for sticking with me on
this. I thought that by specifying multiple Outlook (not ISP) accounts that
Outlook would recognize them as distinct. The only thing I'm trying to
accomplish is to have an email I receive via a non-default account (i.e.,
(e-mail address removed)) be returned via this same account when I
reply so it's seen in the recipient's Inbox as being from the name I have
associated with that account (Jeff Krukin/Space Frontier Foundation), rather
than from the name I've associated with my default or other non-default
Outlook accounts.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Here's where the process breaks. I want to be able to reply to an
email and have my client intuitively know what From: header should be
used. While I can work around this by specifying multiple accounts
in Outlook, it requires me to either:
- manually select the account every time I send
- use each account to only download certain emails from the server
(rules-based)

Make a wish. Write to outwish at microsoft dot com. Perhaps they'll change
Outlook to handle that. Otherwise, use Thunderbird.