Defaulting to wrong address in 'From' field

Hi, i have a small problem that i hope someone can help me figure out.

It is this;

Although i have the correct default address set in Accounts, for some reason
whenever i reply to someone (who has sent it to my default account) it
always wants to use another account, in the 'From' field.

It's not a huge problem, it's a case of checking and changing before i hit
send, but of course, sometimes i forget. It'd be nice to work out why it's
doing it and fix it.

i'm using Outlook Express 6 and iE 7 (tho it did it before i installed iE 7
so i don't think it's that) and running XP Pro SP2 (updated).

Many Thanks!
\sh

The Default account only applies to new messages. Replies and Forwards
use the same account that the original message was downloaded via.

What is probably happening is that you have one server POP3 mail account
fed by multiple e-mail addresses. In that case, any account in OE could
download the messages and whatever one happens to do that will be used
for replies. You can see what account downloaded the messages by adding
the ACCOUNT column to the Inbox (View, Columns).

What you need to do is go into Tools, Accounts, Mail, Properties,
General and Uncheck the Include this account when receiving mail for all
of these alias accounts EXCEPT the Default account. That way the
default account will download all the mail.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"\sh" wrote in message
...
Hi, i have a small problem that i hope someone can help me figure out.

It is this;

Although i have the correct default address set in Accounts, for some
reason whenever i reply to someone (who has sent it to my default
account) it always wants to use another account, in the 'From' field.

It's not a huge problem, it's a case of checking and changing before i
hit send, but of course, sometimes i forget. It'd be nice to work out
why it's doing it and fix it.

i'm using Outlook Express 6 and iE 7 (tho it did it before i installed
iE 7 so i don't think it's that) and running XP Pro SP2 (updated).

Many Thanks!
\sh

"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...

What is probably happening is that you have one server POP3 mail account
fed by multiple e-mail addresses. In that case, any account in OE could
download the messages and whatever one happens to do that will be used for
replies. You can see what account downloaded the messages by adding the
ACCOUNT column to the Inbox (View, Columns).

What you need to do is go into Tools, Accounts, Mail, Properties, General
and Uncheck the Include this account when receiving mail for all of these
alias accounts EXCEPT the Default account. That way the default account
will download all the mail.

Thanks for the reply, Michael. Followed your advice, and although it wasn't
*exactly* that in the end, your advice did help me find the solution. It
turned out that my account settings were wrong (after switching ISP recently
i changed settings) and the pop3 settings for the default account were set
to collect _only_ my ISP mail account, and not the pop3 where most of my
mail comes through.

i'm now getting my mail and it's showing the default addy as it should now,
largely thanks to you. Much appreciated!

\sh

I'm glad you got pointed in the right direction.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"\sh" wrote in message
...

"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...

What is probably happening is that you have one server POP3 mail
account fed by multiple e-mail addresses. In that case, any account
in OE could download the messages and whatever one happens to do that
will be used for replies. You can see what account downloaded the
messages by adding the ACCOUNT column to the Inbox (View, Columns).

What you need to do is go into Tools, Accounts, Mail, Properties,
General and Uncheck the Include this account when receiving mail for
all of these alias accounts EXCEPT the Default account. That way the
default account will download all the mail.

Thanks for the reply, Michael. Followed your advice, and although it
wasn't *exactly* that in the end, your advice did help me find the
solution. It turned out that my account settings were wrong (after
switching ISP recently i changed settings) and the pop3 settings for
the default account were set to collect _only_ my ISP mail account,
and not the pop3 where most of my mail comes through.

i'm now getting my mail and it's showing the default addy as it should
now, largely thanks to you. Much appreciated!

\sh