Using random accounts in OL2003

[Robin Briggs]

I have Outlook 2003, all the latest SPs, running on XP Pro. I have 4 POP
email accounts and 1 Hotmail account.

Recently, I noticed that even though I specified, say, Account A as the
account to use for sending an email, it would sometimes (seemingly randomly)
choose another account out of which to send my email. this is really
infuriating, as I don't like for one group of people to know about email
accounts they have no business knowing about.

Another thing: It is not always the same accounts. It seems to try to rotate
through the list, or something.

Has anyone else seen this behavior? What would cause something like this to
happen?

Thanks.

 

[Tim C]

One possibility: Forwards and replies go out through the same account they
came in on.

Tim C
MCSE, MCDST

 

[Robin Briggs]

Well, I checked the last message this happened to, and that did NOT happen.
I received an email to Account A, hit reply, and it ended up going out
through Account B.

any other ideas?

 

[Brian Tillman]

Recently, I noticed that even though I specified, say, Account A as
the account to use for sending an email, it would sometimes
(seemingly randomly) choose another account out of which to send my
email. this is really infuriating, as I don't like for one group of
people to know about email accounts they have no business knowing
about.

Has anyone else seen this behavior? What would cause something like
this to happen?

Plenty of people and it has been mentioned here numerous times. Microsoft
is aware of it. I don't recall if a hotfix is available. Jeff Stephenson,
MSFT, may be able to elucidate.

 

[Jeff Stephenson [MSFT]]

There is a bug in SP1 that causes it to try other accounts if the server of
the first account rejects all the recipients. The likely cause of your
problem is that you need to authenticate to the outgoing server of account
A - you can set that up on the "Outgoing server" tab for the account.