Outlook Banter - View Single Post - How to setup different email account for each contant?

**Brian Tillman**

wrote:

1. Is there any way to setup a Contact so that email messages sent to
her/him, will be handled automatically by a pre-determined email
account, not by the current default email account? There is a field
named "E-Mail Account", but it's not editable. Its value shows the
current e-mail account setup as the default, and changes if the
default has changed.

No.

2. Another field that seems to not be editable is the "From" field.

Where do you see this field. Your contacts have no "from", since they are
recipients (i.e., people to whom you send mail), not senders.

Its contents have different formats though, in messages received from
different or sometimes from the same senders. It can show: "John Doe
]", "John Doe ]",
" or just "John Doe".

If you're speaking about the From field on received mail, then the format of
that field is determined by the sender and you cannot affect its appearance.
It's a totally non-functional field anyway. It doesn't matter what it
contains as it doesn't necessarily reflect the address from which the
message was sent. I could send you a message that appears to come from
" if I wanted.

Also, when you start to type
"john" in the "To:" field, all the "John something" you ever sent a
message to, with all their different "From" displays, show up in the
history drop-down list.

This is your autocompletion cache, controlled by the "Suggest names when
completing To, Cc, and Bcc fields" checkbox on ToolsOptionsE-mail
OptionsAdvanced E-mail Options dialogue page.

My question on this subject has two parts.
a. Can the "From" field of a Contact be modified to show a desired
format (for example only "John Doe")?

Again, you can't control what other people include in the From field of
messages you send. You can certainly control what your recipients see in
the From field when you send them a message.

b. Can the "To:" field history be cleared from time to time so that
only current addressees are shown?

What do you mean by "current addresses"? Keep in mind that the
autocompletion cache has no connection to your Contacts in any way. All it
contains are the most recent (up to 1,000) addresses to which you have sent
mail. If, when typing in the To field, a name comes up that you don't want,
use the arrow keys on your keyboard to select it and htne press the Delete
key to remove the address. If you want to clear the entire list and start
over, close Outlook and then delete the file whose extension is ".nk2" and
whose file name matches your mail profile name located in the )hidden)
folder %AppData%\Microsoft\Outlook (i.e., C:\Documents and
Settings\yourname\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook)
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Brian Tillman