Outlook should have the ability to specify which email account to use for
sending messages which would override the default account for designated
contacts.
The current rules only seem to address incoming emails.

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Davemac1 wrote:

Outlook should have the ability to specify which email account to use
for sending messages which would override the default account for
designated contacts.
The current rules only seem to address incoming emails.

So, why not just choose the account when you send the message?
--
Brian Tillman

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

Davemac1 wrote:

Outlook should have the ability to specify which email account to use
for sending messages which would override the default account for
designated contacts.
The current rules only seem to address incoming emails.

So, why not just choose the account when you send the message?
--
Brian Tillman

For the obvious reason - you have to remember to do it every time. If you
have different email accounts for different purposes, then the ideal is to
assign classes of users to default to those accounts.
Let the computer do the work for you and remember the settings.

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

Davemac1 wrote:

Outlook should have the ability to specify which email account to use
for sending messages which would override the default account for
designated contacts.
The current rules only seem to address incoming emails.

So, why not just choose the account when you send the message?
--
Brian Tillman

Better yet, set up a signature for each account that has the account
settings or at least the name to remind you. Then use Word as the editor
and when you switch your signature to match your account, your account is
also switched.

Besides, how would you define a rule that would be configurable to select
your sending account without Outlook mind reading?


--�
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Davemac1 asked:

| For the obvious reason - you have to remember to do it every time. If
| you have different email accounts for different purposes, then the
| ideal is to assign classes of users to default to those accounts.
| Let the computer do the work for you and remember the settings.
|
| "Brian Tillman" wrote:
|
|| Davemac1 wrote:
||
||| Outlook should have the ability to specify which email account to
||| use for sending messages which would override the default account
||| for designated contacts.
||| The current rules only seem to address incoming emails.
||
|| So, why not just choose the account when you send the message?
|| --
|| Brian Tillman

Since Outlook includes contacts, the email account coulod be attached to the
contact.
The other option is for a rule to be applied for emails to a domain or a
designated group of users.

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Better yet, set up a signature for each account that has the account
settings or at least the name to remind you. Then use Word as the editor
and when you switch your signature to match your account, your account is
also switched.

Besides, how would you define a rule that would be configurable to select
your sending account without Outlook mind reading?


--�
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Davemac1 asked:

| For the obvious reason - you have to remember to do it every time. If
| you have different email accounts for different purposes, then the
| ideal is to assign classes of users to default to those accounts.
| Let the computer do the work for you and remember the settings.
|
| "Brian Tillman" wrote:
|
|| Davemac1 wrote:
||
||| Outlook should have the ability to specify which email account to
||| use for sending messages which would override the default account
||| for designated contacts.
||| The current rules only seem to address incoming emails.
||
|| So, why not just choose the account when you send the message?
|| --
|| Brian Tillman

Davemac1 wrote:

Since Outlook includes contacts, the email account coulod be attached
to the contact.

Then how would you ever send to that address with another account?
--
Brian Tillman

You can still override. The point is you noramlly would not want to.

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

Davemac1 wrote:

Since Outlook includes contacts, the email account coulod be attached
to the contact.

Then how would you ever send to that address with another account?
--
Brian Tillman

But if it does it automatically, where is the option to override? You are
thinking like a human, computers do what you tell them and are not subject
to whims.

--�
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Davemac1 asked:

| You can still override. The point is you noramlly would not want to.
|
| "Brian Tillman" wrote:
|
|| Davemac1 wrote:
||
||| Since Outlook includes contacts, the email account coulod be
||| attached to the contact.
||
|| Then how would you ever send to that address with another account?
|| --
|| Brian Tillman

Are Brian & Milly being deliberately awkward?

Currently Outlook by default sends using your default account and you can
override this when you create the email.

All Dave is asking is that the default is taken from the Contact record and
again can be overridden if you want to use a different account.

Sounds like I have the same situation as Dave, by default I have a number of
Dlists that I send to using different accounts (99.999% of the time the
account for a particular Dlist is always the same). I want the Dlist to hold
the account to use.