Reply from address question

[Nick H]

This question has been asked before, but the responses I've seen seem to
conflict. My specific situation is I receive email from several addresses
into standalone OL2003. When I reply, I would like the "From" address to
automatically be the one the sender used to email me rather than the default.

Can I do this in OL2003, and if so how? If not, I have a legal copy of
OL2007 I could change to if that would give me this capability. Thanks.

 

[Gordon]

This question has been asked before, but the responses I've seen seem to
conflict. My specific situation is I receive email from several addresses
into standalone OL2003. When I reply, I would like the "From" address to
automatically be the one the sender used to email me rather than the
default.

That's the default behaviour. What makes you think it isn't?

 

[Gordon]

This question has been asked before, but the responses I've seen seem to
conflict. My specific situation is I receive email from several addresses
into standalone OL2003. When I reply, I would like the "From" address to
automatically be the one the sender used to email me rather than the
default.

Can I do this in OL2003, and if so how? If not, I have a legal copy of
OL2007 I could change to if that would give me this capability. Thanks.

BTW, if you are using the "From" field in your reply, that field is designed
for when you send an email on behalf of someone else...

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

This question has been asked before, but the responses I've seen seem to
conflict. My specific situation is I receive email from several addresses
into standalone OL2003. When I reply, I would like the "From" address to
automatically be the one the sender used to email me rather than the
default.

Can I do this in OL2003, and if so how? If not, I have a legal copy of
OL2007 I could change to if that would give me this capability. Thanks.

What Gordon is saying is that Outlook always replies to a message using the
account with which it was received. This cannot be changed. However,
"account" and "mail address" are not the same thing. An account in Outlook
accesses a mailbox on a server. If you have multiple mail addresses feeding
that single mailbox; that is, people can send messages to, say
(e-mail address removed) or (e-mail address removed), and they both wind up in the same
Inbox on a server that you then access with Outlook, Outlook cannot tell which
_address_ received the messages. As far as Outlook is concerned, all of the
messages were received by a single account and when you reply, Outlook will
use that account and the recipient will see whatever mail address you have
associated with that account. If you want then to see the correct sending
address in this case, then you cannot use aliases or forward one mailbox to
another on the server (i.e., you can't forward gmail to hotmail). You must
create a separate account for each mailbox and access that mailbox only with
that one account.