Sending when using multiple accounts

[Rob Elliot]

I have two accounts set up on my Outlook profile - my work Exchange
acount, and my home IMAP account.

When I send an email I can choose which account to send it as using the
"Accounts" menu option on the email form - in theory! In practise,
however, when it arrives at the other end it always has my work email
address on it. This is very unsatisfactory, I want to keep a complete
separation of home and work. In the copy saved in sent mail the "from"
address is listed as "Robert Elliot [[email protected]];
on behalf of; Robert Elliot", but at the other end that comes out as
"From: Robert Elliot [mailto:[email protected]]"

I know I could do this by having a separate profile - but I'd rather
not, there's really no reason why I should need to log out and back in
again for such a simple bit of functionality.

On a related theme, is there a way to make the choice of account you
send a message under control where the message gets saved to? At
present it gets saved in the Sent Mail folder of my Exchange account
and I then have to move it to a Sent Mail folder on my IMAP account,
which is a chore.

Grateful for any help,
Rob

 

[Rob Elliot]

As ever, finally get frustrated enough to ask and then you find the
answer - I'd misconfigured my SMTP server so it was falling back to the
exchange one. Sorry to bother you all.

However, would still like to know about the saving sent emails in
different places for different accounts if anyone knows anything.

 

[Jeff Stephenson [MSFT]]

You can create a rule that works on sent mail that moves the message to
your IMAP Sent Items folder.

 

[Brian Tillman]

You can create a rule that works on sent mail that moves the message
to your IMAP Sent Items folder.

Technically, the rule will COPY (not move) the messages from Sent Items to
the IMAP folder. There is no move rule on send, that I can find.

 

[Jeff Stephenson [MSFT]]

In the rules wizard, pick "Start from a blank rule" and "check messages
after sending".

 

[Brian Tillman]

In the rules wizard, pick "Start from a blank rule" and "check
messages after sending".

Yes, but you won't find any "move" rule there, only "move a copy".