Reply in Windows Mail

[Preacherboy]

When I use the Reply function in Windows Mail it chooses to place an email
address that is not my default address in the From box at the top. This is a
problem because now people have a more private email address that I kept for
specific use.

 

[Guest]

When I use the Reply function in Windows Mail it chooses to place an email
address that is not my default address in the From box at the top. This is
a
problem because now people have a more private email address that I kept
for
specific use.

If I remember correctly, you can click on the From: line and get the chance
to
send from other email accounts you have set up under Windows Mail.

 

[Dave]

Windows Mail should use (by default) the email address for the account that
the message came into. So if you reply, the sender will see the same email
address that they already used.
If you wish to change the account to send the reply from, click on the From:
box.

 

[Preacherboy]

If I remember correctly, you can click on the From: line and get the chance
to
send from other email accounts you have set up under Windows Mail.


The dilemma is that I do not always check the from box because it used to be by default. And it chooses an different address than the one that the email came into. So a person writes me at my regular address and then I hit reply and the From box now has my other more limited address. Maybe I should just reload Windows Mail??

 

[Guest]

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When you reply, Windows Mail is supposed to use the account the
message you are replying to as the default From: address.

I haven't tried it, but you may want to click on Tools, then Accounts,
then your email account, then Properties, then change your reply
address to whichever address you want to be the default for the
From: line for that account, then click Apply, then OK, then Close.

Windows Mail is a part of Vista are very hard to uninstall or
reinstall without doing the same to the rest of Vista. However,
it sometimes helps to remove your email account under Windows
Mail, then restart Windows Mail and add the account again.

 

[Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

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Windows Mail will reply using the account that downloaded the message. If
the 'accounts' are actually aliases for the same mailbox on the server then
this will be the first account that checked the server after that message
arrived at the server.