jviren said:
I have two mailboxes defined, if I understand your question. One with Qwest
and one with Gmail. Outlook is set up to receive both of them through the
Qwest account. Does this make sense?
Outlook cannot retrieve anything except from the mail server specified
to it. You only have 1 account defined in Outlook. That means you can
only poll ONE mail server for new messages.
For Gmail messages to show up in your Qwest account, you either:
- Configured Gmail to automatically forward all e-mails to your Qwest
account. That is a server-side function. You use their webmail
interface to your account to enable that forwarding option (and to
specify where to forward). This is pushing (forwarding) your e-mails to
elsewhere.
- Or, you configured your Qwest account to poll your Gmail account.
Your Qwest accounts acts like the e-mail client to check if there are
new messages in your Gmail account and, if so, pulls them to the Qwest
account. This is pulling (retrieving) your e-mails from another
account.
In either case, Outlook only knows about the ONE mailbox that you
defined to it: the Qwest mailbox. It has no information about the Gmail
account.
You say you only have ONE account defined in Outlook. That means it
will report your e-mail address according to whatever you specified in
the E-mail Address field in the account you defined in Outlook. That is
the only one it can use because it is the only account you defined in
Outlook.
If you want all your recipients to see you as (e-mail address removed) then put
that in the E-mail Address field in the account defined in Outlook. If
you want all your recipient to see you as (e-mail address removed) then put
that in the E-mail Address field. Leaving the E-mail Address field (so
you don't report one) violates the CAN-SPAM act.
If what you want to do is switch between your From e-mail address shown
in your outbound e-mails so for some e-mails they look like they came
from Gmail and for others they look like they came from Qwest then you
are stuck using mail profiles. You can create multiple mail profiles
(using the Mail applet in Control Panel). Under one mail profile, you
would define the one account and specify your e-mail address as
(e-mail address removed). Under another mail profile, you would define the one
account and specify your e-mail address as (e-mail address removed). E-mail
accounts are separate that are defined under different mail profiles.
Then configure the mail profiles to NOT specify a default one. You want
Outlook to prompt you as to which mail profile you want when you start
Outlook. When you start Outlook, you will be prompted as to which mail
profile you want to use. Pick one. To change to a different mail
profile, you will have to exit and reload Outlook to again get the
prompt to select a mail profile. This way, you have different mail
profiles where each has one e-mail account defined within it but they
all point to the same mail server; however, each account (in the
different mail profiles) would have a different e-mail address specified
for yourself. This is the clumsy means provided by Outlook to switch
identities inside of Outlook.
If, however, what you meant you wanted is to show one e-mail address in
the From header but have recipients reply to a different e-mail address
then enter a non-blank value in the Reply-To field in the account you
defined in Outlook. The recipient will see the From header which
identifies you at whatever e-mail address you put there but will use the
e-mail address in the Reply-To header when they reply to your e-mails
(unless they choose not to use whatever, if anything, is specified in
the Reply-To header).
