GoodwinM wrote:

I have a POP and Exchange account in Outlook 2003. I want the pop
account to be the higher order account. When I set it that way my
mail is processed first by the POP account, then by the Exhange
server. That is what I want it to do. I can set the order of
processing, but something keeps setting it back to put the Exchange
account first. Since the exchange server is not processing outgoing
mail, when it is the highest priority, outgoing mail is not delivered.

I am unable to set the POP account as the default.

When Exchange is one of the accounts, I don't think there's any way to
prevent it from being the default account. Still, if you receive message
via the POP/SMTP account, any reply you make should be sent by that account
automatically.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]