Re: Outlook 2003: Check the outgoing email account before sending?
From: Scott (usenet739_yahoo_com_au)
Date: 03/16/04
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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:17:10 +1100
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"Scott" <usenet739@_yahoo_com_au> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I'm pretty sure the answer to this is "no", but here goes...
>
> I use Outlook to collect both work and personal email via POP. So, I
> have several email accounts defined. I would like all personal email to
> be sent via my personal account(s). Sometimes I forget to change the
> account before hitting send, and personal information is being routed
> thru my work's SMTP server.
>
> Is there a way, perhaps a magic registry setting or some configuration
> trick, to get Outlook to force the choosing of a specific outgoing
> account before sending? In a way, I'd like to NOT set a default
> account, so Outlook would prompt for an account when I hit send.
>
> The only idea I can come up with is to create a dummy account, make that
> the default account, and don't include that in the Send/Receive group.
> That way, mail would sit in the Outbox until I remember to set the
> proper outgoing email account. But this seems like such a kludge.
>
> I like the look and feel of Outlook 2003 but, if you've ever used
> Mozilla Thunderbird, it handles this issue a lot better.
>
> Any better ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
>
> PS: A related question: is there a way to get my outgoing personal
> email filtered to a different "sent" folder than the default? It looks
> like I can set a filter to "move a copy" (what does that mean? is it
> move, or is it copy???) of the email to the other folder, but I want it
> to do a full move. I want my work sent folder to contain work email,
> and my personal sent folder to contain personal email.
>
> Thanks again...
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