e-mail accounts in Outlook

[kleivakat]

I'm using Outlook 2002 at work, and wanted to set up an e-mail accout in
Outlook for my personal e-mail. I set it up and can send and receive mail,
but when I send mail it shows that it comes from my work account, not my
personal account. I've clicked on the down arrow in a message that says
"Accounts", and selected my personal account, but it still shows my work
account.

Any suggestions?

 

[Andy]

Sorry to barge...Hope you don't mind, but I have the same problem in reverse
and have tried to resolve this matter. I'm running OL 2007 on Vista.

 

[N. Miller]

I'm using Outlook 2002 at work, and wanted to set up an e-mail accout in
Outlook for my personal e-mail. I set it up and can send and receive mail,
but when I send mail it shows that it comes from my work account, not my
personal account. I've clicked on the down arrow in a message that says
"Accounts", and selected my personal account, but it still shows my work
account.

Any suggestions?

You are at the mercy of the administrator of your work server. If they have
configured their server to always use the work email address, there is
nothing that you can do to change it, unless work IT has some special option
that they offer.

As an example, I have a Gmail account which has SMTP access. I can configure
my client to use that server, but Gmail always forces the "From:" email
address to be the 'gmail.com' email address unless I take steps to verify an
alternate email address. You will have to check with work IT to see if they
will allow it; be prepared, they may not.