Replying to emails with correct account?

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Paul

I've got 2 accounts with Office 2000, for example:

[email protected]
[email protected]

I've got [email protected] set as the Default account.

When I send a mail to [email protected], and click Reply to it,
the automatic responder is set to [email protected] even though
the "To" field of the sent mail is to [email protected]. I'd
like it to send the reply from [email protected] instead, which
is how it USED to work before I had to re-install Windows. Is
there a way to do this? It definitely DID do it once before!

Thanks for reading! :)
 
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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

Paul said:
I've got 2 accounts with Office 2000, for example:

[email protected]
[email protected]

I've got [email protected] set as the Default account.

When I send a mail to [email protected], and click Reply to it,
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Do you perhaps really mean when you click "reply" to a message you received
on [email protected]?
the automatic responder is set to [email protected] even though
the "To" field of the sent mail is to [email protected]. I'd
like it to send the reply from [email protected] instead, which
is how it USED to work before I had to re-install Windows. Is
there a way to do this? It definitely DID do it once before!
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Hmmm - well, I know that OL2002, 2003 are smart this way and will try to
reply using the account to which the original message was sent. I didn't
think that was an option in OL2000 and prior - that it would always use the
default account.

That said, are you using corporate/workgroup or internet mail only mode
(check in help | about), and is this a different mode than you were using
before?
 
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Paul

Lanwench said:
Do you perhaps really mean when you click "reply" to a message you
received on [email protected]?
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Yes, sorry -- that's what I meant. I have 2 test mails in my Inbox
at the moment: one sent to [email protected] and the second sent to
[email protected] (not really the addresses; they're just examples).

So... when I select [email protected] and click Reply, the "From"
field on the new mail is addressed as from [email protected] instead
of the correct [email protected] address. To send from the first
one, I have to click the right-hand side of the "Send" tab and
manually select [email protected] to specify it as the sender,
which is undesirable. My wife actually uses this second address,
and if she doesn't do this, her mails will be sent as though from
my address (the first account). So there lies the problem. :(
That said, are you using corporate/workgroup or internet mail only
mode (check in help | about), and is this a different mode than you
were using before?
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I've tried both ways, and both send all mail from the first account,
no matter who the original mail is addressed to. It's basically
the same problem as shown at http://tinyurl.com/2q5f7 but there
doesn't seem to be any way to override it. :(
 
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Paul

Paul said:
I've tried both ways, and both send all mail from the first account,
no matter who the original mail is addressed to. It's basically
the same problem as shown at http://tinyurl.com/2q5f7 but there
doesn't seem to be any way to override it. :(
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I forgot to mention: originally (when it worked) I was using Internet
Mail Only, as I had never used Corporate/Workgroup mode before.
 
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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

Try changing back to IMO, then. Or upgrade to OL2002/2003 which handle this
a lot better (and are a lot better in general!)
 
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