Despatching mail with an alternative reply address.

[David]

Sorry if I have not put the header well.
I work a couple of days a month freelance for a company. I have an email
address there and that email is forwarded to my personal account at home,
that is not a problem. However when I want to reply to those emails a want
any replies to my reply to go to/through the company account and be
forwarded.

What I did was copy the settings for my presonal account (pop3, smpt etc.)
set up another email account in outlook called say "me company" and set the
reply address to (e-mail address removed).

When I send and receive all emails are downloaded twice presumably because
outlook is downloading twice from my personal account, once for me once for
"me company".

Other than setting up a separate account and just using that for any emails
from "me company" is there a way round it. I don't need to download emails
from "me company" as they are already downloaded with my personal emails.

That is about as clear as mud isn't it but if you do understand and have
solution I would like to hear from you.

regards

 

[William Lefkovics [MVP]]

You got it right - setting up a second account in an POP3/SMTP setting
allows you to select the alternate account to send messages. You do not
need to enter the correct POP3 server for the second account. Put in
"localhost" or something as the inbound POP3 server.

 

[Brian Tillman]

What I did was copy the settings for my presonal account (pop3, smpt
etc.) set up another email account in outlook called say "me company"
and set the reply address to (e-mail address removed).

When I send and receive all emails are downloaded twice presumably
because outlook is downloading twice from my personal account, once
for me once for "me company".

Alternatively to what William said, you could also simply disable the
receiving portion of the send/receive operation for that account by
modifying the send/receive group.

 

[David]

How do I modify the receive portion of the send and recieve opertion for an
account?

Thanks for taking the trouble to understand what I was asking and providing
such pertinent replies.


David

 

[Brian Tillman]

How do I modify the receive portion of the send and recieve opertion
for an account?

While viewing your Inbox, press Alt-Ctrl-S to bring up the Send/Receive
Groups dialogue. Select your Send/Receive group (probably "All Accounts")
and click Edit. Select the account in the left pane and then uncheck
"Receive mail items". Click OK, then Close. Outlook will no longer check
for incoming mail for that account when it performs its send/erceive.

 

[David]

That simple! Thank you
--
David

While viewing your Inbox, press Alt-Ctrl-S to bring up the Send/Receive
Groups dialogue. Select your Send/Receive group (probably "All Accounts")
and click Edit. Select the account in the left pane and then uncheck
"Receive mail items". Click OK, then Close. Outlook will no longer check
for incoming mail for that account when it performs its send/erceive.