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| Guest | Default 'From' Account I found Gary VanderMolen's post on 4/27/08 which explains "(t)he default behavior is that replies will use whatever account downloaded the original message, while a new message uses the 'From' address associated with the currently selected account folder. Both of those defaults can be overridden by using the dropdown in the 'From' box." Fair enough. But is there a way I can get it to ALWAYS default to my main account as the 'From' in NEW messages UNLESS I change it to a different account? I have 9 email accounts config'd in WLM and I often forget to click back on my main email account & / or manually change the 'From' dropdown so I've got emails that should be coming from one account coming from another and so forth. Note that I don't want / need to change the behavior on replies. Thanks for your time & tips!!! -- Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. |
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| Guest | Re: Default 'From' Account No, you can't change the default behavior. The only workaround is the manual override as I described below. -- Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP "Lori" <Lori@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:B8E93406-3207-401D-B5F7-ACD3B207C3C9@xxxxxx
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| Guest | Re: Default 'From' Account Bummer. I figured as much but I was still hopeful.... Oh well. Thanks for replying... -- Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "Gary VanderMolen" wrote:
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| Guest | Re: Default 'From' Account You're welcome. As a side note, it should be mentioned that both Outlook Express and Vista's Windows Mail have the default behavior you prefer. -- Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP "Lori" <Lori@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:30E2B6F8-B59A-4C17-98DA-1E4D9F0DE709@xxxxxx
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| Guest | Re: Default 'From' Account Start a new message with the default email account. Save to the desktop. Use the saved file (template) to start new email messages. -- Ronald Sommer "Lori" <Lori@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:30E2B6F8-B59A-4C17-98DA-1E4D9F0DE709@xxxxxx
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| Guest | Re: Default 'From' Account Gary - My office FINALLY finished upgrading to XP at the end of 2007 so I don't think I'll be seeing Vista any time soon... (Although point noted!)And since MS is discontinuing Hotmail / OE compatibility I'll definitely be using WLM from here on out. Ron - Ahh. Not a bad workaround at all! Just tested it out - aok! Thanks guys!! -- Life moves pretty fast. If you don''t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "Ron Sommer" wrote:
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| Guest | Re: Default 'From' Account You're welcome. Note that MS has postponed the end of Hotmail/OE compatibility indefinitely. -- Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP "Lori" <Lori@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:09750F37-3FAC-42FD-B6D4-5361525B4F45@xxxxxx
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| Guest | Re: Default 'From' Account "MS has postponed the end of Hotmail/OE compatibility indefinitely." Get out of town!!!!! The last 'note' I got from them was that sometime in June (if memory serves...) they were pulling the plug & they basically said to switch over to WLM or you're SOL if you want to use a client to access email. Was that a nasty little marketing ploy to get people to switch over or what?!?! Oh well. I moved everything over to WLM & killed all my account setups in OE so there's no point in going back now. Guess their tactics worked.... *sigh* Microsoft......... "Gary VanderMolen" wrote:
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| Guest | Re: Default 'From' Account There is a rather lame announcement from Microsoft here: http://emailsupport.spaces.live.com/...708!5745.entry I don't think it has received wide distribution. -- Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP "Lori" <Lori@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:573C3728-CA40-48FE-8324-20257500B53C@xxxxxx
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