Making email default separate from data files default - HELP

[AndiGobin]

I have outlook 2007 on Windows XP. I currently have my work email MAPI to
outlook. I also have my personal calendar (along with notes, tasks and
contacts) in a separate data file. I want my personal data file to be default
(so that is synced to my PDA through activesync), but this stops my emails
being sent, even though I have selected my work email to be default for
sending and retrieving. I can retrieve my emails, just not send them.
Does anyone have any idea how to fix this? Why give us the ability to
select defaults if only one profile can be in charge at a time.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have outlook 2007 on Windows XP. I currently have my work email
MAPI to outlook. I also have my personal calendar (along with notes,
tasks and contacts) in a separate data file. I want my personal data
file to be default (so that is synced to my PDA through activesync),
but this stops my emails being sent, even though I have selected my
work email to be default for sending and retrieving. I can retrieve
my emails, just not send them.
Does anyone have any idea how to fix this? Why give us the ability to
select defaults if only one profile can be in charge at a time.

Your PDA can sync only with your default (i.e., delivery location) folders.
When you have Exchange, the mailbox is usually the delivery location.
Changing that to a PST will remove everything from the Exchange mailbox,
which I'm sure is not what you want. With Outlook, delivery location equals
default. If ou want to sync a PDA with non-default folders, you need a sync
tool specifically designed to allow that. ActiveSync doesn't

Defaults, as far as accounts are concerned, have nothing to do with the
folders. The default account merely specified which account will be used to
send a new message when you do not manually choose the account with the
Accounts button. It doesn't control what folders will be used for delivery
(and hence the default folders). Outlok 2007 does allow you to specify on a
per-account basis which mail folder is to receive messages arriving for the
account, but this, too, does not affect the default folders or the default
account.

 

[AndiGobin]

Thanks for the information. I am aware of the default settings for
activesync. However, if I set the personal folders to default under data
files and set my email tab to have the work email to send from this account
by default (which by the way is the only email account I use with outlook),
my received emails still go to the correct folder, it is my sent emails which
keep trying to be sent from my personal folder even though there is no email
associated with those data files.

If I make the email the default for both email and data files, it messes up
all my categories and scheduling in my personal folder. Also if I try to put
personalization to the email account ( such as color or categories) it
disappears whenever I log off and then return later to look at them.

Andi

 

[Brian Tillman]

Thanks for the information. I am aware of the default settings for
activesync. However, if I set the personal folders to default under
data files and set my email tab to have the work email to send from
this account by default (which by the way is the only email account I
use with outlook), my received emails still go to the correct folder,
it is my sent emails which keep trying to be sent from my personal
folder even though there is no email associated with those data files.

Again, Sent mail will always be placed in the Sent Items folder of your
delivery location unless you specifically choose another folder.