Why is Outlook sending email using the wrong account?

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Thank you so much!! This very problem has been driving me nuts for weeks. The worst? The account that Outlook chose as a substitute was in my (unstable) wasband's name. My associates were freaking out thinking that he was sending them mail. So, thanks a billion!

I have a slightly different problem: I gave my finace a laptop qand configured it for her. Now that she's my wife she asked me to change her user name. Still, an Outlook 2003 account still associates her maiden name with her email account.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

That's the name in the account settings for mail you send.

For mail you recieve it's determined by the person at the other end, so you'll probably see it for a long time.

I'm hoping to find a solution to the question posed by Ben Hamilton. One of my clients has issues receiving mail from my standard SMTP server. So I send all mail to their domain from a different server. But I need to do this manually. When I send to that company and CC to someone else, I sometimes manually send two separate mails, so it's not really a CC. The ability to determine the Account on a per contact basis would be highly valued. As a developer I would write the code myself but I have no idea if it's already in Outlook or what the process should be to make this happen properly. Thanks!

Leo- This was very helpful, thanks. I'm no Microsoft basher -- they've helped pay my bills in the past -- but I can't help feel this is another case of them assuming they know what's best for the user without actually, you know, asking any users.

Leo - I've used MS Outlook 2003 for years and the screwiest thing just started to happen. I send an email to the correct address, and yet it goes to a different address. This has happened with two differnt addresses I've emailed to just recently, and is something new.

The real unfortuneate thing is that it goes to about 400 people with a Yahoo group I moderate. I only have one email address I send from.

Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks.

EARL

Hi!
I have just seen and read this thread.

My outlook 2003 has 3 email accounts. My default email account is "A" and the other two B & C say - and "usually" when I write a new email it defaults to using my "A" email address - but frustratingly sometimes for no reason it uses my "B" email account instead.

I have tried deleting all three accounts etc and setting up from scratch, but still every so often the "B" email account gets used to mark who I am (ie the "from address email field).

Any ideas what I can do?

Have run 2003 outlook for 3 years and nothing has changed so why on earth this bug now?

I am tearing my hair out!

Thanks for any help.

Mike

You've just saved me hours of frustration - was thinking about reverting back to outlook express! Thank you very much!

Is it possible for this to happen with hotmail as well?? An email that I had replied to was sent from the address that was Bcc'd and not my own account, however the thread from the previous email in my account I had replied to showed up at the bottom of the email. Any help would be great!!

I have a slightly different problem. I have three accounts A (the default), B and C
If I receive an email via account A, B or C and attempt to reply, Outlook always chooses account B as the reply account. I can change the reply account setting with no problem, but I sometimes forget and becomes a nuisance.

I'd like Outlook to send the reply with the same account that it received the email.

I've tested the account settings and they are all OK.
I wonder Leo, whether you have any ideas.

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