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Outlook 2003 - Email Always Sends From Default Account!!!

Jun 15, 2005 11:17AM PDT

Hi All,

Recently I'm having a problem where whenever I send a test email through Outlook 2003, it always sends it through the default account.

I have 8 POP3 mail accounts and 1 Hotmail account setup, 2 of the POP3 accounts are forwarded addresses. I found the problem by trying to test the forwarded addresses, I thought it would be only these accounts to start with but i've tried them all and even when I select a different account to send from, the mail always arrives as if sent from the default account.

Curiousley enough when I use the Outlook 2003 "Test Account Settings..." button, the emails come in OK?!?!

This however doesn't solve my problem as it doesn't reassure me. Plus I still haven't managed to test the 2 forwarded accounts.

Any ideas anyone?

Cheers

Craig

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Yup.
Jun 15, 2005 11:50AM PDT

When I send, I just move the mouse curson just to the right of Send and it pops down a list of the other accounts.

Just FYI, Outlook makes users of multiple accounts that want replies to go out from where the email come from scream. I have no cure or fix for that issue. Maybe some other email client software works for that?

Bob

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Still No Luck?!?!
Jun 15, 2005 12:26PM PDT

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

I know about the accounts dropdown and I have used this but it still sends from the default account whichever account I choose.

Any other advice... this is driving me mad. Any ideas why the program's own test emails get through ok but the test emails that I compose myself only send through the default account?

Thanks in advance

Craig

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I've come to the conclusion...
Jun 15, 2005 9:28PM PDT

That this is the wrong program for such use or "requirement."

I've seen this issue for a few years now and such users are always complaining.

Bob

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Outlook 2003 - Email Always Sends From Default Account!!!
Jun 16, 2005 12:28AM PDT

Thanks again for your comments but THIS IS the program I am using and it has the functionality therefore there must be a way to get it to work properly.

I'd be happy to hear from anyone who has experience of this problem and has a workaround or solution.

Cheers

Craig

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There is one area you must be a master at.
Jun 16, 2005 12:37AM PDT

The accounts settings must be perfect. Remember that (again) this area is one I hear complaints about. Rarely do they call in to Microsoft (I don't know why), but the answers seem to never satisfy them.

-> I'd migrate to something that works for 8+ accounts in the manner you want.

Bob

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Outlook 2003 - Outlook always sends from my default account
Aug 11, 2005 1:08PM PDT

Hi Craig,

I am experiencing exactly the same frustration you appeared to have endured a couple of months ago - did you ever find a solution?

Regards,

Mike.

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Isn't this a question of
Aug 12, 2005 8:08AM PDT

how you log into the email server?

eg, if you have an ISP account with MyISP.com then your main email account may be something like, yourname@myisp.com

You may have other email accounts with the same ISP, eg yourname2@myisp.com and youname3@myisp.com, but do these other two accounts not use different usernames and passwords? I'm sure my ISP email accounts did, (when I had different email accounts on the same ISP).

Now, whenever you open up OE, you have to log in. Or, you have set up OE to remember your username and password and it is automatic.

But what if you logged in with your other usernames and passwords? Would you then be able to send emails from that email account?

This is a different matter from "receiving" emails. Most ISP's now will allow access to their POP servers, (for incoming mail), from one email client and through one ISP as long as the account details match, (I have 3 other email accounts on different servers, and can receive emails from all 4 whichever account I am logged into).

But "sending" emails may be different. You can only send an email from the account you are logged into.

Or so I thought.........

Mark

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Found the problem
Aug 18, 2005 7:26PM PDT

Thanks for trying to solve my problem but I have managed to find the problem and solve it.

Background: I use a couple of yahoo accounts and a couple of me@myisp.com.au accounts. To access the yahoo accounts via outlook 2003, I use a freeware utility called "YPOPs!".

Solution: Turns out it was this utility that was causing the problem. It doesn't like the SMTP service of IIS running in the background so I removed that component of IIS and it now works ok.

Regards,

Mike.

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More solutions possible for 'sending with default address'
Sep 9, 2005 5:03PM PDT

I also had the problem on my XP machine that Outlook 2003 SP1 kept sending all my messages from different accounts and isp's only with the default address.
Since I do not use IIS and/or SMTP in my XP machine, I tried locating another solution. I found that after I installed Google Earthview the problem started, so I uninstalled this complete and ... the problem seems to have been solved.