Can I set up a business and a personal return address in Outlook?

[Guest]

I am self employed and need to have two separate return addresses in Outlook
2000, one when sending business email and one when sending personal email.

I am fairly proficient at Outlook setup. I once tried to do this using
multiple profiles, which does work, but this created basically two separate
Outlooks, which forced me continually log on and off of each one all day long
just to check my messages. It would be best if it were all in one profile,
that way I could just leave it active and let it beep me when new email
arrives, both business and personal.

Is there a way for it to follow signatures? I use separate business and
personal signatures. If I reply to a business related email (sent to my
business address), I need them to receive my business return address in my
reply. Likewise when replying to a message sent to my personal address they
would receive my personal return address.

Thanks

Gregg Vizza

 

[Brian Tillman]

I am self employed and need to have two separate return addresses in
Outlook 2000, one when sending business email and one when sending
personal email.

You need two accounts. What mode are you using? The second line of Help
About should tell you.

Is there a way for it to follow signatures? I use separate business
and personal signatures. If I reply to a business related email
(sent to my business address), I need them to receive my business
return address in my reply. Likewise when replying to a message sent
to my personal address they would receive my personal return address.

You can't have account-specific signatures in Outlook 2000 (that feature was
added in Outlook 2003), but you can certainly have multiple signatures and
just choose the one you want prior to sending the message.

 

[Guest]

Brian,

The Mode is Internet Mail Only.

I didn’t realize that you could set up two accounts to the same POP server.
I just tried it and it worked. So the first account downloads all the
mail, then the second account tries to but finds the mailbox empty because
the first server grabbed it all first. I suppose that is no big deal
having it check the mail twice every time. It would be great if I could
leave off the POP part of the second account and just list the SMTP and my
different return address but Outlook would not let me leave the POP entry
blank.

Thanks

Gregg Vizza

 

[Brian Tillman]

I didn’t realize that you could set up two accounts to the same POP
server. I just tried it and it worked. So the first account
downloads all the mail, then the second account tries to but finds
the mailbox empty because the first server grabbed it all first. I
suppose that is no big deal having it check the mail twice every
time. It would be great if I could leave off the POP part of the
second account and just list the SMTP and my different return address
but Outlook would not let me leave the POP entry blank.

In a later version of Outlook, I'd tell you to adjust your send/receive
group to not poll the second account, but I don't know how to do tat in OL
2000 IMO or even if it's possible. I don't have access to that version. I
have OL 2000 in CW mode at home on a laptop, but there are sop many
differences between IMO and CW mode that it's almost like a different
product.

 

[Guest]

Maybe someone else will know how to shut off polling for the second account.
In the mean while, thanks for the advice, for now it works fine as is. I
may upgrade to 2003 in the future to be able to have the signatures follow
the accounts.

Thanks

Gregg

 

[Guest]

I found a check-box labeled "Include this account when receiving mail or
synchronizing". I checked it and now it no longer polls that account, and I
am still able to send from it. Everything is now perfectly configured.
Thanks for all the help.

What does it mean by synchronizing?

Gregg

 

[Brian Tillman]

I found a check-box labeled "Include this account when receiving mail
or synchronizing". I checked it and now it no longer polls that
account, and I am still able to send from it. Everything is now
perfectly configured. Thanks for all the help.

What does it mean by synchronizing?

That applies if the account is an Exchange account. POP accounts don't
synchronize.