Replying to E-mail uses default e-mail account?

[Guest]

I have 2 e-mail accounts set up on one personality. If an e-mail comes in to
the second account and I reply it ALWAYS uses the default (First) e-mail
account address as From: Is there not way for Outlook to recognize which
e-mail account it came to and use that one automatically for the reply
account?

Thanks

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have 2 e-mail accounts set up on one personality. If an e-mail
comes in to the second account and I reply it ALWAYS uses the default
(First) e-mail account address as From: Is there not way for Outlook
to recognize which e-mail account it came to and use that one
automatically for the reply account?

What version of Outlook and what type of account. By default, Outlook will
always reply using the receiving account.

 

[Guest]

Sorry, Outlook 2003 and both are pop3 accounts.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

are you authenticating with the accounts? if outlook can't send on an
account, it uses the next available SMTP (supposed to be fixed in sp2).

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[Guest]

Thanks for the response Diane.

No I am not authenticating. Both e-mail accounts us the same smtp server,
the only thing I would like is to see the from: for an email received by
account "b" actually be the account "b" e-mail address ... right now it
inserts from: account"a" e-mail address when sending a reply to a received
account "b" e-mail address. You can of course do it manually by selecting
which account to send from before sending, however I am not that wide awake
first thing in the morning and will not notice or check.

It just seems to me that it would be a simple check when replying to see
which account received the e-mail and send it from that account.

Thanks again for yuor response.

Andrew
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Andrew Mitchell

are you authenticating with the accounts? if outlook can't send on an
account, it uses the next available SMTP (supposed to be fixed in sp2).

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



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[Brian Tillman]

It just seems to me that it would be a simple check when replying to
see which account received the e-mail and send it from that account.

And that is exactly what Outlook does, except when it has trouble for some
reason in using the receiving account for sending.