selecting default account when replying

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When replying to emails, Outlook automatically selects
an account to use which is not my default account. How do
I change this? My default account is already chosen and
it works fine for new email messages. It is only when
REPLYING to messages that Outlook chooses to use an
account that is not the default one (even when the
original message from me was sent using the default
account) My version of Outlook is 2003, part of Office
Professional 2003. Thanks.
 
"SCOTT" said in news:[email protected]:
When replying to emails, Outlook automatically selects
an account to use which is not my default account. How do
I change this? My default account is already chosen and
it works fine for new email messages. It is only when
REPLYING to messages that Outlook chooses to use an
account that is not the default one (even when the
original message from me was sent using the default
account) My version of Outlook is 2003, part of Office
Professional 2003. Thanks.
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You want inbound e-mail to arrive through, say, 3 accounts. You want
all further communications to go through just one account. You haven't
mentioned whether or not you want all future communications to also come
back to that same account or to go through whatever account the original
message was received.

To send out using only one account, define your accounts to do so. In
each account, configure the outbound server to be the same one. There's
nothing forcing the inbound (POP3) and outbound (SMTP) servers to be for
the same e-mail provider. Define the POP3 server to be whatever is used
for that e-mail account. Define the SMTP server to be whichever
provider from where you want to originate your messages. So, if
domain_A is where you want to originate all your e-mails, then configure
as:

account_A: POP3 = pop3.domain_A.com, SMTP = smtp.domain_A.com
account_B: POP3 = pop3.domain_B.com, SMTP = smtp.domain_A.com
account_C: POP3 = pop3.domain_C.com, SMTP = smtp.domain_A.com

Each account can still specify a different moniker in the Name field and
whatever you want in the E-mail (From) and Reply-To fields, so you could
have (filling in the Reply-To field is optional and only needed if
different than the From field):

account_A: Name = George, E-mail/Reply-To = george@domain_A.com
account_B: Name = Fred, E-mail/Reply-To = fred@domain_B.com
account_C: Name = Joe, E-mail/Reply-To = joe@domain_C.com

However, if you want all further communications to also come back
through the same account:

account_A/B/C: Name = George, E-mail/Reply-To: (e-mail address removed)

You get a lot of control over which servers get used within each account
and what Name, From, and Reply-To headers to use.
 
This sounds like normal behavior. Outlook replies with the same account that
the message was received on.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers



When replying to emails, Outlook automatically selects
an account to use which is not my default account. How do
I change this? My default account is already chosen and
it works fine for new email messages. It is only when
REPLYING to messages that Outlook chooses to use an
account that is not the default one (even when the
original message from me was sent using the default
account) My version of Outlook is 2003, part of Office
Professional 2003. Thanks.
 
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