In OL 2000, I removed the send button from my toolbar and replaced it with
the Send Using button. Every time I sent an email, I forced myself to
explicitly select the sending account. Yes, it required an additional click
for every message I sent or replied to, but I was quite willing to pay that
price.
With the OL2002/2003 interface, it takes three clicks to do it right
(Accounts, <select>, Send) and one click to do it wrong (Send). Guess which
one I do?
In OL 2002 and now 2003, I have the Accounts button sitting right next to
the Send button. I'm well aware that I CAN select an account. Quite often,
I even DO select an account. But equally often (or let's be honest, more
often than not), I forget to select an account and just mash the Send button.
A few points here.
- I don't propose this as the default behavior for Send. Most OL uses will
never use such a feature if they even discover it in the first place. - I
recognize that I SHOULD select an account every time, but I've been doing
this for years and recognize that I'm likely to just screw up a lot,
particularly when I'm in a hurry.
- There was, in OL 2000, an elegant solution to my habitually erroneous
behavior. The disappearance of a feature that was useful to me and harmless
to everyone else is frustrating.
Heck, I bet it's missing from OL 2007, too. Maybe I'll get lucky with OL
2010 or finally sit down and learn VBA for Outlook. ;-)
Ed