Manually setting the From: field

[Alan Kleymeyer]

I receive mail addressed to various mailboxes from my server, all forwarded to my primary email account. When I respond, I'd like to have the From: field be the addresss the email was originally sent to, NOT the address of the Account I'm using to send the mail with

How can I manually override what will appear in the From field?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Use the From field when sending. You can specify this when addressing the
mail.
You can also change the mail address in your account settings.

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I receive mail addressed to various mailboxes from my server, all

forwarded to my primary email account. When I respond, I'd like to have the
From: field be the addresss the email was originally sent to, NOT the
address of the Account I'm using to send the mail with.

 

[*Vanguard*]

"Alan Kleymeyer" said in

I receive mail addressed to various mailboxes from my server, all
forwarded to my primary email account. When I respond, I'd like to
have the From: field be the addresss the email was originally sent
to, NOT the address of the Account I'm using to send the mail with.

How can I manually override what will appear in the From field?

I have Outlook 2002. I have several POP3 accounts defined in Outlook. All
POP3 accounts aggregate their incoming e-mail into the single Inbox folder.
You can use rules to move them to their own folders based on the account
through which they were received.

When I reply to a message, OL2002 automatically selects the same account to
send my reply that was used to receive the message. I don't have to do
anything if that default is the behavior that I want. If, however, I want
to send the reply through a different account than through which it was
received then I click on the Accounts toolbar button and pick which account
I want to use. Changing the From field ends up with the recipient seeing
"johndoe on behalf of janedoe" which doesn't look very good, but selecting a
different account to use when sending will show only the From name defined
under that account.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You missed one crucial thing here;
The messages get FORWARDED to the mailbox he is sending from so only one
account is set-up here

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[*Vanguard*]

"Roady [MVP]" said in news:[email protected]:

You missed one crucial thing here;
The messages get FORWARDED to the mailbox he is sending from so only
one account is set-up here


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Yeah, you're right. I missed that he is really only using a single account
in Outlook. All Outlook sees is just the one e-mail account. The
forwarding service is outside its scope; i.e., Outlook won't know what's
happening on the other side of the mail server to which it connects.