S
Shmeker
I have an MSN Premium account and Outlook Connector for Outlook 20003 both on
my desktop and my laptop (both running Windows XP). I have setup my account
on both computers and my email is getting synced nicely. I have 2 POP3
accounts that are setup on both machines and their default delivery store is
the Outlook Connector account. That way when I get an email on one of my POP
accounts its uploaded to the MSN server and I can see it from both computers.
This works great.
When I receive an email from one of the POP accounts ( I will call it POP-1)
on one of my machines ( in this example my laptop), and I click on reply,
Outlook will automatically chose POP-1 as the send account. That is what it
should do, because that way I will responded with the same account the email
was sent to.
THE PROBLEM:
The problem is that if I go to my other machine (my desktop), and click on
the same email (that got uploaded on the MSN server in the meantime) and
click reply, Outlook will automatically select Outlook Connector's account as
the send account.
Basically the receiving account information is stripped from the email
header, when the message is uploaded to the MSN server. This creates a
problem because I don't want to confuse people by replying with a different
email address than the one they sent email to. And while I can change the
send account manually, I sure I will forget to do that many time (plus I have
to first find out what account the message got in on)
I even tried to setting only POP-1 account as the default account, hopping
that I can have all emails sent using it ( I would set another profile for
the other POP account), but on my desktop (where the message arrives via MSN
server sync), the default reply account is the Outlook Connector account. On
the laptop (which is the client that received the original message from the
POP-1 server, the send account is correct because Outlook sets the send
account according to the orginal receiving account, not because POP-1 was set
as the default account)
Also all these situations happen if I reverse the orginal receiving client (
I receive the email from POP-1 on desktop, and it shows up on laptop via MSN
sync)
I tried setting up the reply to address on the MSN account web page to match
POP-1(since the MAPI plug-in doesn't give me any options), but it didn't
work, since the email sent from my desktop would not have that information
when it reach the recipient. I ran many tests, but it looks like the reply to
address setting under MSN account doesn't have any impact when the email is
sent using Outlook Connector. Same thing happened with the "Send using other
account" setting under MSN account, Outlook connector just ignored that
setting on my MSN account.
Since the Outlook connector's MAPI plug-in doesn't give me any options (I
can't access the SMTP setting, or I would just change them to my POP-1
settings), I am out of ideas.
I am sure that you are not supposed to change the send email account every
time you want reply. Help
my desktop and my laptop (both running Windows XP). I have setup my account
on both computers and my email is getting synced nicely. I have 2 POP3
accounts that are setup on both machines and their default delivery store is
the Outlook Connector account. That way when I get an email on one of my POP
accounts its uploaded to the MSN server and I can see it from both computers.
This works great.
When I receive an email from one of the POP accounts ( I will call it POP-1)
on one of my machines ( in this example my laptop), and I click on reply,
Outlook will automatically chose POP-1 as the send account. That is what it
should do, because that way I will responded with the same account the email
was sent to.
THE PROBLEM:
The problem is that if I go to my other machine (my desktop), and click on
the same email (that got uploaded on the MSN server in the meantime) and
click reply, Outlook will automatically select Outlook Connector's account as
the send account.
Basically the receiving account information is stripped from the email
header, when the message is uploaded to the MSN server. This creates a
problem because I don't want to confuse people by replying with a different
email address than the one they sent email to. And while I can change the
send account manually, I sure I will forget to do that many time (plus I have
to first find out what account the message got in on)
I even tried to setting only POP-1 account as the default account, hopping
that I can have all emails sent using it ( I would set another profile for
the other POP account), but on my desktop (where the message arrives via MSN
server sync), the default reply account is the Outlook Connector account. On
the laptop (which is the client that received the original message from the
POP-1 server, the send account is correct because Outlook sets the send
account according to the orginal receiving account, not because POP-1 was set
as the default account)
Also all these situations happen if I reverse the orginal receiving client (
I receive the email from POP-1 on desktop, and it shows up on laptop via MSN
sync)
I tried setting up the reply to address on the MSN account web page to match
POP-1(since the MAPI plug-in doesn't give me any options), but it didn't
work, since the email sent from my desktop would not have that information
when it reach the recipient. I ran many tests, but it looks like the reply to
address setting under MSN account doesn't have any impact when the email is
sent using Outlook Connector. Same thing happened with the "Send using other
account" setting under MSN account, Outlook connector just ignored that
setting on my MSN account.
Since the Outlook connector's MAPI plug-in doesn't give me any options (I
can't access the SMTP setting, or I would just change them to my POP-1
settings), I am out of ideas.
I am sure that you are not supposed to change the send email account every
time you want reply. Help