Changing default email account
 

I am using Outlook 2003 with Windows XP Pro. I have two email accounts in my
profile. I have an Exchange Server account attaching to my Small Business
Server 2003. The second email account is a POP3 account. I change the
default email account to the POP3 account, but the setting changes when I
restart Outlook. How can I keep the POP3 account as the default email
account.

Changing default email account
 

Use a separate profile for each account type. Exchange will always try to reset itsefl as the default.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Doctor PC asked:

| I am using Outlook 2003 with Windows XP Pro. I have two email
| accounts in my profile. I have an Exchange Server account attaching
| to my Small Business Server 2003. The second email account is a POP3
| account. I change the default email account to the POP3 account, but
| the setting changes when I restart Outlook. How can I keep the POP3
| account as the default email account.

Changing default email account
 

Milly,

Thanks for your response. The reason I have both accounts in one profile,
is that I want to be able to read my mail and use the calendaring at the same
time. Restarting Outlook is too cumbersome.




"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Use a separate profile for each account type. Exchange will always try to reset itsefl as the default.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Doctor PC asked:

| I am using Outlook 2003 with Windows XP Pro. I have two email
| accounts in my profile. I have an Exchange Server account attaching
| to my Small Business Server 2003. The second email account is a POP3
| account. I change the default email account to the POP3 account, but
| the setting changes when I restart Outlook. How can I keep the POP3
| account as the default email account.

Changing default email account
 

Then you may want to set a default signature for each account (something like and ) and set Word for your message editor after you have done so. Then, when composnig mail, you can see which account will be sending by the signature that is populated when you compose the mail.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Doctor PC asked:

| Milly,
|
| Thanks for your response. The reason I have both accounts in one
| profile, is that I want to be able to read my mail and use the
| calendaring at the same time. Restarting Outlook is too cumbersome.
|
|
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Use a separate profile for each account type. Exchange will always
|| try to reset itsefl as the default.
||
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Doctor PC asked:
||
||| I am using Outlook 2003 with Windows XP Pro. I have two email
||| accounts in my profile. I have an Exchange Server account attaching
||| to my Small Business Server 2003. The second email account is a
||| POP3 account. I change the default email account to the POP3
||| account, but the setting changes when I restart Outlook. How can I
||| keep the POP3 account as the default email account.