Pin default Mail Account ?

[Gene]

I am running Windows Live Mail 12.0. 1606 - under Vista

I have three email accounts setup in WLM.

I normally use the "default" email account daily.

I occasionally use the other two, but very little.

I want the default email account to be automatically selected
"EVERY" time I click on New to create a new email.

If my default email account is highlighted, then it is selected as the
FROM email address for this new email. Otherwise, it is not selected.

If I am not careful, I accidentally send a new email
from one of the other two secondary email accounts - when
I really wanted to create the email from the default email account.
The new outgoing email is always selected from the highlighted email
account.

QUESTION: is there a way to "PIN" the default email account to the NEW
email function?
That is, how do I "force" all outgoing emails to be generated from the
default email account?
Just selecting it as the "default" does not seem to do much of anything ...

THANKS,
Gene

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

What you have described is how WLM works.
Whichever account folder you have last selected becomes the
default identity for a new email.
There is no workaround that I know of, other than going back
to Windows Mail.

 

[Gene]

Not goin' back for sure

What ever happened to the old "Open with the Input folder" option ?
That would at least get me started with the correct account on boot.

THANKS,
Gene

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

I don't think the "Open with..." option was ever in OE.
You may be thinking of Outlook?
You'll just have to remember to click the desired account folder
before starting a new email.