Which account the email comes from

[Vince]

I use Outlook 2002 at home. I have two accounts, one for business, one for
personal.
I also have my Contacts list separated into two folders, business and
personal.
When I create a new email I usually go into the appropriate folder of the
Contacts list, right click an entry and select New Message to Contact.
Is there a way to tell Outlook that when I go into the Business folder of my
Contacts that the new message should come from the business account, so I do
not have to remember to select it manually? The personal email account is
the default, I prefer to leave it that way.

Thanks

 

[Vince Averello [MVP - Outlook]]

As far as I know, no. There's no rule or automatic way to change the
outgoing account by contact folder.

 

[VanguardLH]

I use Outlook 2002 at home. I have two accounts, one for business, one for
personal.
I also have my Contacts list separated into two folders, business and
personal.
When I create a new email I usually go into the appropriate folder of the
Contacts list, right click an entry and select New Message to Contact.
Is there a way to tell Outlook that when I go into the Business folder of my
Contacts that the new message should come from the business account, so I do
not have to remember to select it manually? The personal email account is
the default, I prefer to leave it that way.

Thanks

There is no record in a contact record to associate that contact with a
default e-mail account. You could use multiple mail profiles to each
have their own e-mail account(s) defined and under each mail profile the
default e-mail account would get used to send new e-mails (replies go
out, by default, through the account through which the original message
was recieved). However, having to switch between mail profiles is a
pain in the sphincter. You would define your personal e-mail accounts
under a personal mail profile and define your work e-mail account under
your work mail profile. Then each profile only yanks e-mails from the
accounts defined within it, and can only send using the e-mail accounts
defined within it.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I use Outlook 2002 at home. I have two accounts, one for business,
one for personal.
I also have my Contacts list separated into two folders, business and
personal.
When I create a new email I usually go into the appropriate folder of
the Contacts list, right click an entry and select New Message to
Contact.
Is there a way to tell Outlook that when I go into the Business
folder of my Contacts that the new message should come from the
business account, so I do not have to remember to select it manually?
The personal email account is the default, I prefer to leave it that
way.

What Vince and VanguardLH said, but I recall seeing mention of a third-party
utility that can help with that. I just don't recall where I saw that
mention, however, and a brief Google didn't locate it.

Outlook will, however, always reply using the account that received the
original message, so some of your problem is already handled.

 

[Vince]

Thanks to all for the replies.

If was to create a second mail profile, what is the procedure to switch
between them?

Thanks

 

[Brian Tillman]

If was to create a second mail profile, what is the procedure to
switch between them?

Close Outlook, wait a moment, then reopen Outlook. If you've enabled to
option to prompt for a profile, you'll be asked which profile Outlook should
use.

 

[Vince]

OK thanks.

Will the two profiles by default share the same contact list? If not, can I
set it that way?

 

[Brian Tillman]

OK thanks.

Will the two profiles by default share the same contact list? If
not, can I set it that way?

A mail profile will use whatever data files you tell it to use, but keep in
mind that since a sinlge PST contains ALL of Outlook's folders, you get all
of the folders in the PST - Inbox, Calendar, Contacts, etc. If you're going
to use the same data file in each profile, why bother with separate
profiles? The whole idea of separate profiles is so that you DON'T mix the
data.

 

[Vince]

OK thanks. Separate profiles will not work for me then.