I'm not exactly sure what's happening, but we'll go through how OE
works.

Look in Tools, Accounts, Mail, Properties, General. The Email address
there is what goes in the FROM header, the Reply address, if any goes,
in the Reply to header. When someone replies to a message from you, it
will use the Reply to header if present otherwise it will use the From
header.

Look at the Message Source (Ctrl-F3) for messages in your Sent Items
folder to see if the messages that you sent have the correct From and
Reply to headers.

Outlook Express always uses the same account for replies and forwards
that DOWNLOADED the message (which is not necessarily the account that
matches the e-mail address the message was sent to). The default
account is used for new messages.

If the multiple accounts are aliases for the same server POP3 account
(They have the same settings at Tools, Accounts, Mail, Properties,
Servers for both Incoming POP3 server AND Incoming Account Name), then
any one of the accounts might download messages for any of the
addresses. To see which account downloaded a message, select the Inbox
folder, then View, Columns and add the ACCOUNT column.

If this is the case, and you would like the Default account to be used
for All replies, then there is an easy fix for this. At Tools,
Accounts, Mail, Properties General, Uncheck the Include this account for
All accounts Except the Default one. Then the default account will
download all the mail and will therefore be used for replies.

If the accounts are not aliases, then you do need to have the Include
this account checked for the non-alias accounts and will have to use the
FROM drop down box when composing to set the desired account for that
message.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"JRsDad" wrote in message
...
This problem has been going on several months so I don't know what
might have
triggered it.

I use OE 6.00.29 to send and receive a number of accounts. Each has
been
set up with the proper email address and reply address for the alias.
The
email addresses cover different servers. However, no matter which
account I
specify as the "From" account, it always defaults to another account
(always
the same default account). Note that the reply (originating) account
that it
defaults to is NOT the default account.

Thus I send a message from Jrsdad1234.domain.net and when the
recipient
replies it goes to Info1234.domain.net, another one of my accounts.
When I
delete the Info1234 account, the source and reply email address shifts
to
another account.

I first noticed this when I saw that people from my private emails
were
responding to my business emails. This has cause confusion and
consternation.

I have ported, through Files & Settings wizard, these accounts several
times
over the years. How can I make it so when I send an email, the
recipient
gets it as coming from the account I tried to send it from? I should
note
that the body of the email shows it as coming from the account I sent
it
from, but when they reply it goes to the odd default account.

I have deleted the spurious default account only to have another of my
addresses become the hidden default reply address (again noting that
this is
not related to which account is listed under tools/accounts as
default).

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!