I have Outlook 2003, and use it only for Internet Mail, using the POP3
interface. I have about ten email accounts, but use one account far
more than others. I'll call it my "primary account". While I do NOT
have the primary set as my default account, I do have it second in the
list of accounts, so that when I am doing a full send/receive the
messages from this account are among the first downloaded.

For reasons I won't go into, I had to delete and re-create this
account. Based on my OL settings, which involve leaving my thousands
of non-deleted messages on the mail servers as backups, this account
re-creation is a time-consuming re-download process that requires
carefully creating temporary rules and account modifications to avoid
screwing things up.

Anyway, I've gone through this exercise a few times before (although
that may have been with OL 98), but this time a new and unwelcome
wrinkle has appeared. Namely, Outlook now downloads the primary
account LAST, even though I moved it back up to position number 2 in
the email accounts list. Of course, at the top of the accounts list it
says. "Outlook processes e-mail for these accounts in the following
order", but it's not doing that anymore since it's shunting the
re-created primary to last.

I've tried temporarily resetting the primary account to the default
(which of course moves it to the very top of the accounts listing);
temporarily changing my "Send/Receive All" Group so that this is the
only account included; and moving it down in the list and then back
up...all to no avail.

Does anyone have an idea how I might be able to remedy this WITHOUT
DELETING AND RE-CREATING ANY ACCOUNTS (as I explained above, doing that
is a major pain with my setup)? I just want OL to go back to
downloading the accounts in the order they're shown, as it supposed to

Thanks in advance.