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Old July 28th, 2009, 01:36 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
John Louis[_2_]
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Default Change account when replying to message

I am using two accounts in Outlook Express 6 (Windows XP Home SP3 and IE8)
on my home PC.

When I receive a message on the main default account and click reply to
sender, the address of the secondary account is inserted in the "from" line.

How can this be fixed?

John


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Old July 28th, 2009, 01:59 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
Twayne[_2_]
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Default Change account when replying to message

"John Louis" wrote in message

I am using two accounts in Outlook Express 6 (Windows XP Home SP3 and
IE8) on my home PC.

When I receive a message on the main default account and click reply
to sender, the address of the secondary account is inserted in the
"from" line.
How can this be fixed?

John


Two possibilities:

-- Change the default account to the one you want to show there (in
Accounts). Or,

-- Near the top of the e-mail, click the From: line and select the
other address. When you click there all acccounts will be available to
choose from.

HTH,

Twayne`



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Old July 28th, 2009, 06:25 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
Michael Santovec
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Default Change account when replying to message

Outlook Express always uses the same account for replies and forwards
that DOWNLOADED the message (which is not necessarily the account that
matches the e-mail address the message was sent to). The default
account is used for new messages.

If the multiple accounts are aliases for the same server POP3 account
(They have the same settings at Tools, Accounts, Mail, Properties,
Servers for both Incoming POP3 server AND Incoming Account Name), then
any one of the accounts might download messages for any of the
addresses. To see which account downloaded a message, select the Inbox
folder, then View, Columns and add the ACCOUNT column.

If this is the case, and you would like the Default account to be used
for All replies, then there is an easy fix for this. At Tools,
Accounts, Mail, Properties General, Uncheck the Include this account for
All accounts Except the Default one. Then the default account will
download all the mail and will therefore be used for replies.

If the accounts are not aliases, then you do need to have the Include
this account checked for the non-alias accounts and will have to use the
FROM drop down box when composing to set the desired account for that
message.


--

Mike - http://TechHelp.Santovec.us



"John Louis" wrote in message
...
I am using two accounts in Outlook Express 6 (Windows XP Home SP3 and
IE8) on my home PC.

When I receive a message on the main default account and click reply
to sender, the address of the secondary account is inserted in the
"from" line.

How can this be fixed?

John


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Old August 8th, 2009, 05:10 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
John Louis[_2_]
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Default Change account when replying to message

Thanks for your help. I got OE to work properly fiddling with the tools
settings.

John

John
"John Louis" wrote in message
...
I am using two accounts in Outlook Express 6 (Windows XP Home SP3 and IE8)
on my home PC.

When I receive a message on the main default account and click reply to
sender, the address of the secondary account is inserted in the "from"
line.

How can this be fixed?

John



 




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