choose which account to send from

[Steve]

I have 3 email accounts set up in Outlook 2003


Is there any way to deicde which account will send mail form regardless of
which one receives it?

And can it be done perminantly without me having to keep choosing?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You can use the Accounts button next to the Send button.
I don't you get your last question. You always want to send from a single
account and never the others? In that case you can change the SMTP server
settings and email address of the other accounts to match the account you
wish to send from.

 

[Steve]

Thanks i totaly missed the account button

I dont understand the smtp bit. I havw 2 google accounts and the setting as
more or less the same (POP3) which bit do i change the email address in?

is it the log onto outgoing server. At the moment this is set to same as
incominging should i set the details to the account for the address iwant to
use?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

If they are hosted on the same POP3 server then of course you don't have to
change anything.
To make it look like it was send from the other account you can change the
E-mail Address you have configured in the account.

 

[VanguardLH]

I have 3 email accounts set up in Outlook 2003

Is there any way to deicde which account will send mail form regardless of
which one receives it?

And can it be done perminantly without me having to keep choosing?

The same account is used, by default, for a reply as the account through
which the e-mail was received. Would you want to be sending e-mails to
someone and then get a suspicious reply from someone else because the
e-mail addresses didn't match? If you want to send a reply through an
account other than the one through which the original e-mail was
received, use the Accounts toolbar button.

You can specify a default account but that is used when you compose new
e-mails. If you want to use a different e-mail account for a new e-mail
than the default, use the Accounts toolbar button.

 

[Dick Peik]

When might one want to Send from only 1 of 2 currently-valid accounts? -
when changing ISP (as I'm doing because my old ISP doesn't support the new
higher-speed DSL I switched-to). The old - mad at being left - ISP has made
my previous account receive-only until end of the current=last month, so
Reply's to people sending to that address use the hamstrung account and fail;
even if they didn't, I really want further re-Reply's to come to the new
account. So the need is real.
The (a?) solution seems to use "Send/Receive email-account grouping" which
is tough to find controls-for/description-of (I found it once, accidentally,
and am studying this discussion-group to try to get clues to how it's done);
I believe you can independently spec [check-boxes] whether a given account
does Receives and Sends; even though during configuration of an account
valid-syntax entries seem to be required.

 

[Gordon]

When might one want to Send from only 1 of 2 currently-valid accounts? -
when changing ISP (as I'm doing because my old ISP doesn't support the new
higher-speed DSL I switched-to). The old - mad at being left - ISP has
made
my previous account receive-only until end of the current=last month, so
Reply's to people sending to that address use the hamstrung account and
fail;
even if they didn't, I really want further re-Reply's to come to the new
account. So the need is real.
The (a?) solution seems to use "Send/Receive email-account grouping" which
is tough to find controls-for/description-of (I found it once,
accidentally,
and am studying this discussion-group to try to get clues to how it's
done);
I believe you can independently spec [check-boxes] whether a given account
does Receives and Sends; even though during configuration of an account
valid-syntax entries seem to be required.

The same account is used, by default, for a reply as the account through
which the e-mail was received. Would you want to be sending e-mails to
someone and then get a suspicious reply from someone else because the
e-mail addresses didn't match? If you want to send a reply through an
account other than the one through which the original e-mail was
received, use the Accounts toolbar button.

You can specify a default account but that is used when you compose new
e-mails. If you want to use a different e-mail account for a new e-mail
than the default, use the Accounts toolbar button.

Set the old account to use your new ISPs smtp server.......that should fix
the problem....

 

[Dick Peik]

suggested solution to an account being used to Send:

Set the old account to use your new ISPs smtp server.......that should fix
the problem....

That's a workaround, but putting A's address on B's account is
counterintuitive, and would seem to have potential to send the message twice,
once through each account.

I searched other help threads and pieced-together the following process that
works: receiving and sending from NewAccount, but from OldAccount only
receiving:
Outlook 2003 menubar 'Tools' menu
'Send/Receive' > 'Send/Receive Settings' > 'Define Send/Receive Groups'

dialog

In listbox ('Group Name' ...), select the group shown, and click 'Edit'
button.
In 'Accounts' column on left, select the OldAccount,
then in resulting right column 'Account Options', UN-check the "Send
mail items"
(with the 'Include this account in group" box checked).

 

[Gordon]

suggested solution to an account being used to Send:
That's a workaround, but putting A's address on B's account is
counterintuitive,

Why? All you are doing is changing the smtp server - nothing else changes.
The recipient ses no difference, and neither do you...

and would seem to have potential to send the message twice,
once through each account.

Only if you actually send it twice......