Wrong from address

[Guest]

I have several IMAP mailboxes, with an Inbox folder under each.

When I click on a given Inbox, and click New email, I want the email to be
addressed FROM that mailbox (of course). Outlook addresses it from one of
the other mailboxes (the default, I would guess).

Does anyone know a way around this?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have several IMAP mailboxes, with an Inbox folder under each.

When I click on a given Inbox, and click New email, I want the email
to be addressed FROM that mailbox (of course). Outlook addresses it
from one of the other mailboxes (the default, I would guess).

Does anyone know a way around this?

The only way around it is for you to choose the account with the Accounts
drop-down.

 

[Guest]

Yep, that works. But I don't want to have to do, or remember to do that
every time. Email is going to get all mixed up in different boxes. What a
shame. Guess I'll have to go back to my web interface again.

:
choose the account with the Accounts drop-down

 

[Brian Tillman]

Yep, that works. But I don't want to have to do, or remember to do
that every time.

Surely your brain is trainable enough that after only a few mistakes that it
will remember. Mine was.

 

[Guest]

You know, that sounds reasonable for most of the emails. But to have to do
that for every email, I'll probably miss one here and there. And then I will
have email sent from the wrong company (that is not good).

To not have the from-address match the account I'm sending from is absurd.
I can't imaging what MS was thinging there (or not thinking, I guess).

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the dialoge, Brian.

I think I'm going to look into writing a macro for this, since this is
important to me. Despite some of the lockups, and quirks, I have always
loved Outlook. So I don't want to give that up. And now that I'm using
IMAP, rather than POP3, I get the best of both worlds (can use both
interfaces).

 

[Brian Tillman]

I think I'm going to look into writing a macro for this, since this is
important to me.

I wish you luck. If the code you add does what you need, you might want to
share it with others. A good place for that is at
http://www.outlookcode.com/ . In fact, there may be something already there
that may help do what you need.

 

[Victor Ivanidze]

John,

test this Outlook COM add-in:
http://www.ivasoft.biz/files/RightAccount.zip
It can work only with Outlook 2003 though.

Regards,

Victor Ivanidze
www.ivasoft.biz

 

[Victor Ivanidze]

You'll find the details here:
http://www.ivasoft.biz/rightaccount.shtml

Regards,
Victor Ivanidze