Sending from multiple email accounts in Outlook Mobile

[Rob Vonderhaar]

Hi -
I have a personal (hosted) Exchange account. All of my email - personal and
business - forwards to that account. However, when responding to an email, I
need to be able to choose the email account to match the original source.

In desktop Outlook 2003, this is easy - I simply setup "dummy" email
accounts for each of the POP3/IMAP accounts from which I want to send. When
I hit "reply" to an Exchange message, I can then use the pulldown menu to
choose which sender account to use.

The problem is that I also use Window Mobile 5.0 (on a Treo 700w) which is
ActiveSync'ed to my Exchange server. When I hit "reply" on the Treo, the
"from" account always shows the Exchange account (as "Outlook e-mail)" and
cannot be changed. (You'd think there would be a pulldown on the "From"
header to allow selection from the alternate accounts that I've also
configured on the Treo, similar to the way I handle it in Outlook 2003, but
it's not there... sigh.)

I've tried everything to no avail. There are no hidden menu options to
reply from other than the default sender. I even thought about trying to
'move' the email from the Exchange account into one of the other accounts,
followed by a 'reply' from that account. But that can't be done either,
because the 'move' menu only supports moving a message to other folders
within the *same* account.

If anyone has any kind of workaround to suggest, I'd be eternally grateful.
Surely there must be others who use a mobile device to manage email from
multiple accounts this way??

Thanks,
Rob

 

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After furious head scratching, Rob Vonderhaar asked:

| Hi -
| I have a personal (hosted) Exchange account. All of my email -
| personal and business - forwards to that account. However, when
| responding to an email, I need to be able to choose the email account
| to match the original source.
|
| In desktop Outlook 2003, this is easy - I simply setup "dummy" email
| accounts for each of the POP3/IMAP accounts from which I want to
| send. When I hit "reply" to an Exchange message, I can then use the
| pulldown menu to choose which sender account to use.
|
| The problem is that I also use Window Mobile 5.0 (on a Treo 700w)
| which is ActiveSync'ed to my Exchange server. When I hit "reply" on
| the Treo, the "from" account always shows the Exchange account (as
| "Outlook e-mail)" and cannot be changed. (You'd think there would be
| a pulldown on the "From" header to allow selection from the alternate
| accounts that I've also configured on the Treo, similar to the way I
| handle it in Outlook 2003, but it's not there... sigh.)
|
| I've tried everything to no avail. There are no hidden menu options
| to reply from other than the default sender. I even thought about
| trying to 'move' the email from the Exchange account into one of the
| other accounts, followed by a 'reply' from that account. But that
| can't be done either, because the 'move' menu only supports moving a
| message to other folders within the *same* account.
|
| If anyone has any kind of workaround to suggest, I'd be eternally
| grateful. Surely there must be others who use a mobile device to
| manage email from multiple accounts this way??
|
| Thanks,
| Rob