Specify two server accounts

[Matty]

Hi,

My MS Outlook is set up for two server accounts:

Account 1 - In: work server, Out: work server, User info: work e-mail
address
Account 2 - In: home server, Out: home server, User info: work e-mail
address

I've set up the user info to show my work e-mail address in both cases
because I reply to a lot of work e-mails at home.

However, I also check and respond to home e-mails while I'm at work (using
the work server); and also respond to home emails at home (using the home
server). I would like my sent e-mails to show my home e-mail address. So I
set up these additional accounts:

Account 3 - In: work server, Out work server, User info: home e-mail address
Account 4 - In: homeserver, Out homeserver, User info: home e-mail address

The problem with this kind of set-up is that I get two copies of each
incoming e-mail then.

Is there a simpler solution/set-up to/for the outcome I want to achieve?

Is there a way to set up one e-mail account with 1 incoming server and 2
outgoing servers? That would solve my duplicate incoming mail problem.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Matty

 

[Brian Tillman]

Is there a simpler solution/set-up to/for the outcome I want to
achieve?
Is there a way to set up one e-mail account with 1 incoming server
and 2 outgoing servers? That would solve my duplicate incoming mail
problem.

Modify your send/receive group so that only two of the four accounts
actually receive mail.

 

[Matty]

That's what I've been doing before as well.
I deliberately misspell a part of the incoming mail server name so that it
can't successfully download e-mails.
That strategy though is a bit annoying because I would then have to contend
with connection error messages.

 

[Brian Tillman]

That's what I've been doing before as well.
I deliberately misspell a part of the incoming mail server name so
that it can't successfully download e-mails.
That strategy though is a bit annoying because I would then have to
contend with connection error messages.

So, don't modify the server name. Simply disable incoming messages for the
two duplicate server definitions. No error messages then.

 

[Matty]

How do you disable incoming messages?
I've been looking long ago for how to do that within Tool>E-mail accounts
but don't know how?

Is the logon info on the first popup window (where I can still see the
"more settings" button) only for incoming messages?

 

[Brian Tillman]

How do you disable incoming messages?
I've been looking long ago for how to do that within Tool>E-mail
accounts but don't know how?

While viewing the Inbox, press ALT-CTRL-S to bring up the Send/Receive
Groups dialogue. Select the Send/Receive group containing your accounts
(probably "All Accounts") and click Edit. Select each account with the
duplicate POP server and uncheck "Receive mail items".

 

[Matty]

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!