[gui-talk] Sending mail from multiple accounts in Outlook 2003:

Thu Apr 19 08:51:42 CDT 2007

Oh great!  I think my email is pop3.  So that means I can't use the windows
mail?  So what do I use instead?  Pam.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "albert griffith" <albertpgriffith at hotmail.com>
To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 8:44 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Sending mail from multiple accounts in Outlook 2003:


> Outlook is part of the Office Suite of applications and designed to
> integrate with them for businesses or power users.  Outlook Express has
> traditionally been combined with Internet Explorer as an e-mail client for
> the home user.  I've purchased Vista, so, I can't use Outlook Express
> because it's not offered with I.E. 7.  The new e-mail client is, Windows
> Live Mail and it doesn't support POP 3 access for Hotmail, even though it
> also is a Microsoft creation.  What's quite strange is that Microsoft's
new
> e-mail client will support pop 3 access with other mail services.  I have
> Office 203, thus, access to Outlook.  Not wishing to give up my Hotmail
> account, I made the switch and it's worked out well enough except for this
> account access problem.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 7:50 PM
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Sending mail from multiple accounts in Outlook
2003:
>
> Ah. So OE is meant to sound sort of like "Outllook Lite," even though
> there's much more difference than just the number of unique features for
one
> of them. They aren't the same core programs at all, just somewhat similar
in
> their interfaces? Ah, marketing. You gotta love it.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Oppermann" <chuckop at exchange.microsoft.com>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 4:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Sending mail from multiple accounts in Outlook
2003:
>
>
> The only similarity between Outlook Express and Microsoft Outlook is the
> name.  Otherwise they couldn't be more different.
>
> Originally OE was named "Internet Mail and News", but someone decided to
> bring "synergy" to the various products and renamed it "Outlook Express".
>
> The fact that they have similar names, and try to mimic some functionality
> has caused endless problems for trainers, IT and support techs and others.
>
> --Chuck
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 3:38 PM
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Sending mail from multiple accounts in Outlook
2003:
>
> Okay, Chuck. I believe you, too! :-) Thanks for emphasizing that OE and
> Outlook can be different, however similar they may seem in their
essentials.
> I did try to learn to use Outlook once, a few years ago, but its extra
> functions served only to confuse me, and I gave it up after a few days of
> struggling. I didn't need anything that it did, really. But while I was
> fooling around with it, I must have gotten the misimpression that it was
> more similar in certain essential ways to OE than it actually is. So, I
> stand corrected. and hope that Albert won't kill me for confusing the
issue.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Oppermann" <chuckop at exchange.microsoft.com>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 3:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Sending mail from multiple accounts in Outlook
2003:
>
>
> I believe you Joel, but you're using Outlook Express (OE) and I said that
I
> have not tried it under Outlook Express.
>
> The original question was regarding Outlook 2003 (OL or OL2003) and the
> From: field does not affect the account that is used.  There is a separate
> button for that.
>
> --Chuck
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 1:37 PM
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Sending mail from multiple accounts in Outlook
2003:
>
> It doesn't work that way for me. It works just as I say. If I subscribe to
a
> mailing list using this account, that's the account the postings from the
> list go to; if I want, I can go to my Web mail online and find it right
> there in the Inbox for that account, at least until it's downloaded to my
> Outlook Express Inbox. Or if I subscribe to a mailing list under one of
the
> other accounts, mail from that list goes to *that* account's Inbox on the
> Web before it comes into my OE Inbox. See? and it's all using the same
> server at my ISP, just going to different addresses of mine, or coming
from
> them. This may be different from what you're talking about.
>
> anyway, don't listen to me, It's all academic, for me. I don't have an
> "issue," as they say.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Oppermann" <chuckop at exchange.microsoft.com>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 1:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Sending mail from multiple accounts in Outlook
2003:
>
>
> I've always found the "From" functionality somewhat busted in Outlook
(OL).
> I've never used it in Outlook Express (OE) though.
>
> In OL, all the "From" field does is set who the message is from, it does
not
> correspond to which account will be used to send the message.  The account
> determines which SMTP server will be connected, the username/password
used,
> etc.  Each account sets the default "From" value (generally your name and
> e-mail address), but the "From" field can be used to override that.
>
> --Chuck
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 1:02 PM
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Sending mail from multiple accounts in Outlook
2003:
>
> Just out of curiosity Chuck, as an OE 6 user, doesn't Outlook also enable
> you to simply shift tab into the From field of the headers and find there
a
> combo box with all your accounts to choose from or, if you feel like
typing,
> you can just type in the return address you want to use? I ask because I
> don't use any tool bar with OE, and it doesn't prevent me from doing this.
> Know what I'm asking? Doesn't Outlook also work this way, if you prefer?
> thanks.
> chaigng Must you use a
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Oppermann" <chuckop at exchange.microsoft.com>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 12:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Sending mail from multiple accounts in Outlook
2003:
>
>
> As I mentioned, when you create a new message in Outlook 2003, initially
it
> will be configured to be sent from the default account.
>
> If you wish to change the account that this message is sent from, there is
> an Accounts button on the message toolbar which will allow you to choose
> which account it should be sent from.
>
> The accounts button will only be present on the message toolbar if you
have
> multiple accounts configured in Outlook.
>
> --Chuck
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of albert griffith
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 12:08 PM
> To: 'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Sending mail from multiple accounts in Outlook
2003:
>
> Charles, my problem isn't with the default account I've selected but with
my
> ability to select a different account from which to send the message.  It
> seems it used to be that a list of options would come up somehow, and I'd
be
> able to arrowing and select which account to send from on the fly.  Is
this
> true?  I'm using Outlook 2003.  thanks
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Charles Oppermann
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 1:46 PM
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Sending mail from multiple accounts in Outlook
2003:
>
> Outlook will designate the first e-mail account setup as the default
> account.  You can change this from the Account Settings dialog.  Go to the
> Tools menu, choose Account Settings and then highlight one of the accounts
> to be the default and press the "Set as default" button.
>
> When creating a new, blank message, the default account will be used.  You
> can change this using the "Accounts" button on the toolbar.  From there,
you
> can choose the account you wish the message to be sent from.
>
> When replying to, or forwarding, an e-mail, whatever account received the
> message will be set as the account for the reply or forward.  Again, you
can
> change this from the Accounts button in the message window.
>
> Charles Oppermann | Program Manager | Speech Components | Microsoft
> Corporation http://blogs.msdn.com/chuckop/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of albert griffith
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 9:19 AM
> To: 'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Sending mail from multiple accounts in Outlook
2003:
>
> I have three.  Hotmail. google mail and my ISP's SBC. account.  To
clarify,
> I want to be able to send from each as I wish and not have one sending all
> the time.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Stephen Guerra
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:05 AM
> To: 'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Sending mail from multiple accounts in Outlook
2003:
>
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>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of albert griffith
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:54 AM
> To: 'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'
> Subject: [gui-talk] Sending mail from multiple accounts in Outlook 2003:
>
> No matter which of my account in  boxes I'm in, everything wants to get
sent
> from my Hotmail account unless I'm replying to a post.  I've tried opening
a
> new message form, going to send receive and selecting one of my other
> accounts without success.  Any input would be appreciated.
>
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