Why is Outlook sending email using the wrong account?

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I send emails and outlook uses a msn account I have not had in years instead of the account that wwas used. I have checked the setings as per article and still get this phanthom email account as the default email adress. I use 5 emails addresses and it only effects them sometimes. Is there a cookie to delete?

I think I've found another setting that can be used to fix this. I had exactly the same problem. My free wireless account was checking my email from time to time, even when I did not expect it to. I had it set as NOT default, and at the bottom of the list. In Outlook 2003, I clicked on the little down-arrow BESIDE the Send/Receive button, and scrolled down to "Send/Receive Settings" and then over to "Define Send/Receive Groups."

Once there, I found that my hated account WAS indeed on the list of "Send/receive groups" for scheduling, even though I did not want it automatically sending and receiving.

Anything that came in on that account, of course wants to go back out on that account also. I think I've cured it. Older versions of Outlook/Express had a "include this account when sending and recieving" box that you could UN-check, but Outlook 2003 does not.

I think I've found another setting that can be used to fix this. I had exactly the same problem. My free wireless account was checking my email from time to time, even when I did not expect it to. I had it set as NOT default, and at the bottom of the list. In Outlook 2003, I clicked on the little down-arrow BESIDE the Send/Receive button, and scrolled down to "Send/Receive Settings" and then over to "Define Send/Receive Groups."

Once there, I found that my hated account WAS indeed on the list of "Send/receive groups" for scheduling, even though I did not want it automatically sending and receiving.

Anything that came in on that account, of course wants to go back out on that account also. I think I've cured it. Older versions of Outlook/Express had a "include this account when sending and recieving" box that you could UN-check, but Outlook 2003 does not.

I'm a newbee. I have 5 email accounts and use Outlook 2003. I have Outlook check for new messages every 5 minutes. Even though I put in a password, why does a box always come up asking for Network password? and for my various email accounts.

Outlook 2003 - I think I've sussed this - it was a right pain to resolve.

Press CTRL ALT S and then set up an individual Send/Receive Group for each of your individual email accounts.

Then in each of those individual Send/Receive Groups only select the 1 relevant email account you want to include in that group.

You may now have several Send Receive Groups. Disable the ALL ACCOUNTS group and hopefully now your emails will all be sent with the correct outgoing email address.

I have two e-mail accounts set-up in Outlook 2002.
When I send a message, the message comes from my work (default) account. But when I reply to messages sent to the send account they get sent from the other account I have.

How do I change this?

Working with Outlook 2003 we have an "audix" program that takes a voicemail and emails it to my inbox via an "Intuity" account. Problem is, if I try to Forward it to a co-worker, It attempts to send back through the Intuity account, in spite of Exchange being set as the default account. Can force Outlook to use the Exchange account using the "accounts" button, but trying to find a way to make outlook use the default Exchange, before my users lose their minds.

Any Ideas?

One of our end users has lost the ability to use alt s to send an e-mail. There is only one e-mail account on the PC. We are using Outlook 2002 and XP. He is also unable to use the tab key to go from To, cc, subject. I have not been able to fnd anything on the web for this. How can I enable this again.

I have a user in Taiwan that is having a problem sending out email but he can receive emails in his outlook. He is using your incomimg and outgoing server that are a third party company in US. Will he have to change his smtp to the smtp of the company that he is in?

Help! I have a seperate webserver account for my business and have changed over the addresses in my outlook 2003 to display my domain in the email name instead of the bellsouth default email address. Now "certain" times when I send an email it shows my email coming from someone else instead of me.
When tested using this test message email (Subject: Microsoft Office Outlook Test Message

This is an e-mail message sent automatically by Microsoft Office Outlook's
Account Manager while testing the settings for your POP3 account.)it always comes from that "other" person, who does not have an account or an email address thru my business.
Why is this person's name showing up in the "from" block on certain times? How do I fix this?

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