Why does Outlook send from Microsoft Exchange Server?

[Guest]

We have both a POP3 and Exchange Server Account setup on Outlook at our
office computers. We only use Exchange to view each others calendars, and
use the POP3 for all of our e-mail needs. For some reason when you try to
reply to or forward and e-mail you originally wrote it tries to send it
through exchange server by default instead of the POP3 account. How can you
stop outlook from doing this by default?

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

What version of Outlook are you using?

Try Tools | E-mail Accounts | View or Change... click the POP service and
the "Set as Default" button.

Aloha,

-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, OneNote-MVP
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[Guest]

I'm using outlook 2003 with SP1, and the POP3 account is set as my default.
As I said, it only tries to send it through the exchange server when you are
replying to or forwarding an e-mail you wrote. I've seen other people post
about this problem as well...very strange. I think it can probably just be
chalked up to a nice microsoft bug.