Hello All,
I'm using Outlook Express 6, and use it to access two email accounts. The problem is that whenever I compose an email it defaults the "From:" to the first account, even if the email was received on the second. :-(
(How) Can I tell OE6 *not* to use the default as set under tools ->
accounts -> mail (but use the account the message was received on instead)
?
(I seem to remember its possible, but that was on W98se, using OE5 ...)
And a related/bonus question: Can I perhaps set a default address for a user-created subfolder (I'm using message rules to send the messages
coming from both email boxes/accounts to different subfolders) ? That would possibly be even better. :-)
Regards,
Rudy Wieser
I am using OE6 on Win XP and replies do what you want.
Mike,
I am using OE6 on Win XP and replies do what you want.
Thats ... odd. You see, I played around a bit with the "default" setting (for an account) to see if that would change the "from:" in a reply I'm composing, but not even that changes anything. Currently *every* reply, regardless of which account (now three) it received in, gets my first set-up account in the "From:" line.
So ... What *didn't* you do to get it to behave like you mentioned ? :-)
Regards,
Rudy Wieser
Perhaps set up a new separate OE6 database
Mike,
Perhaps set up a new separate OE6 database
I was not aware of that being possible. Could you give me some info (link?) on how you do that ?
You see, I was already thinking of, when my problem persists, if using seperate email programs would be an acceptable solution to me. And yes, it would be. :-)
So, two flies in a single squat: Use it to test what happens on a clean setup, and if that does not change anything having an acceptable
work-around.
Currently I've hacked a solution together by copying all the account data from the first to a new one, and than killing as much as I could from the first one (it now points to localhost). Not really a beauty, but it will stop me from inadvertedly sending a message from the wrong account -- I have to select a life one, or get an "can't send" error when I forget.
-- Hold the presses: I just realized that you might mean to set up a different identity (which, I presume, automatically gets its own database). Is that it ?
Regards,
Rudy Wieser
Sorry, you almost reached the limit of my knowledge
... whereas each imap account gets its own database.
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