Outgoing mail server and multiple accounts

[Chris Dunaway]

At my work, I have set up Outlook 2002 to retrieve mail from my personal
e-mail account as well as my work account using Exchange. My personal
e-mail account is on a different ISP.

This setup seems to work well for receiving mail. But, for reasons that I
do not know, my company has restricted outgoing mail to the company server
through exchange. I cannot send an outgoing mail, unless it is through my
company email account.

This is normally not a problem, except when I hit 'Reply' to an email that
comes to my personal account. Outlook attempts to send the reply through
that account and it fails because of the restriction in Exchange.

What I want to do is create a macro or something that when I hit reply, to
have it use my company account instead of trying to use my personal
account.

I have very little experience with Outlook programming, but know VB6. Can
anyone point me to some resources or hint that will help me accomplish
this?

Thanks,

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

If your company has restricted this, it's probably for good reason. Are you
allowed to be using your personal e-mail at work? Check with your network
admins. Even if this is allowed, do you really want your personal e-mail to
become company property as its on their server?

You may be better off using webmail to check your personal e-mail, if your
company hasn't blocked that - www.mail2web.com is one you might use if your
mail host doesn't have its own webmail feature.