"Marts" wrote in message
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With Outlook I have a number of email accounts set up. However, with the
move to
IMAP I'm only using one of them, the one that actually supports IMAP
services.

The others are set to forward emails to that account. I've done this via the
respective webmail services.

So, I might receive say 3 emails that are for:

(the IMAP account)
(Yahoo account)
(former ISP account that I've retained)

As is used for the IMAP service 2 and 3 forward email
automatically
to 1.

Now, I've deleted those profiles in Outlook, and just have the one email
account.

What's the best way to reinstate those email accounts in Outlook, so when an
email sent to say, me2 can be replied to from the me2 account?

That's not how Outlook works. Outlook doesn't care one hoot about the
_address_ on the message. All it cares about is the _account_. If you
receive a message through a particular account regardless of the address used
to reach that account, Outlook will reply using that account and,
consequently, the mail address associated with that account will be the sender
address. You will need to manually choose the account with the address you
want the sender to see if it's other than the address associated with the
account that received the message.

Should I reinstate them but simply disable email retrieving? And have it
sent
via the Me1 account? The only problem is whether the me1 ISP will allow
emails
from a different domain to be sent through its servers.

That's what I'd do. I'd disable receiving. Most ISPs don't care what the
sending address is provided you authenticate to the server properly. Those
that do usually provide a way to associate multiple addresses with a mailbox
such as allowed by Windows Live or Yahoo.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]