I have 3 POP accounts and 1 IMAP account. One of my POP accounts is set to
be the default. However no matter what I do Outlook uses the IMAP account as
the default.

How do I correct this?

"Janice" wrote in message
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I have 3 POP accounts and 1 IMAP account. One of my POP accounts is set to be
the default. However no matter what I do Outlook uses the IMAP account as the
default.

Outlook version?
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

"Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]" wrote in message
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"Janice" wrote in message
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I have 3 POP accounts and 1 IMAP account. One of my POP accounts is set to
be the default. However no matter what I do Outlook uses the IMAP account
as the default.

Outlook version?
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Outlook 2007.

"Janice" wrote in message
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Outlook 2007.

OK, now explain where you have the default settings configured. You can have
a default account on ToolsAccount SettingsE-Mail Accounts and you can have a
default delivery location on ToolsAccount SettingsData Files. The account
that's chosen for the default will be the account that sends the message when
it is a new message. However, when you reply, the account used to send the
message will be the account that received the original message no matter which
account is the default, unless you specifically choose the account with the
Accounts button.

Are you saying, then, that you have chosen a POP account as the default and
that when you create a new message, it gets sent using the IMAP account?
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So all new mail gets sent on the imap account? Replies and forwards should
go out on the account that downloaded the message.

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"Janice" wrote in message
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I have 3 POP accounts and 1 IMAP account. One of my POP accounts is set to
be the default. However no matter what I do Outlook uses the IMAP account
as the default.

How do I correct this?

All mail gets sent on the pop account that is the default (as long as I
remember to manually choose it). Replies from that account are then
forwarded onto the imap account so that I can access them from home, work,
mobile etc.

I basically want the pop account to be the default for sending. Can I not do
this?



"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote in message
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So all new mail gets sent on the imap account? Replies and forwards should
go out on the account that downloaded the message.

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"Janice" wrote in message
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I have 3 POP accounts and 1 IMAP account. One of my POP accounts is set
to be the default. However no matter what I do Outlook uses the IMAP
account as the default.

How do I correct this?

"Janice" wrote in message
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All mail gets sent on the pop account that is the default (as long as I
remember to manually choose it).

If you have to manually choose the POP account then it's NOT set as the
default account.....

"Gordon" wrote in message
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"Janice" wrote in message
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All mail gets sent on the pop account that is the default (as long as I
remember to manually choose it).

If you have to manually choose the POP account then it's NOT set as the
default account.....

I shall clarify;

New mail gets sent on the default POP account without having to manually
choose it.

It's mail that I reply to that is the problem. The POP account that I have
as default is the email address that people use to send me emails. I have
them forwarded to my IMAP account so that I can access them anywhere. When I
reply I would like it to be sent via my POP account as that is the address
that they are used to. However Outlook wants to automatically send them via
the IMAP account.

"Janice" wrote in message
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"Gordon" wrote in message
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"Janice" wrote in message
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All mail gets sent on the pop account that is the default (as long as I
remember to manually choose it).

If you have to manually choose the POP account then it's NOT set as the
default account.....

I shall clarify;

New mail gets sent on the default POP account without having to manually
choose it.

It's mail that I reply to that is the problem. The POP account that I have
as default is the email address that people use to send me emails. I have
them forwarded to my IMAP account so that I can access them anywhere. When
I reply I would like it to be sent via my POP account as that is the
address that they are used to. However Outlook wants to automatically send
them via the IMAP account.



If you reply to the message that you have received in your POP account then
Outlook will use that account to reply from. That is default behaviour of
Outlook and can't be changed AFAIK.
If you are saying that you are opening en email received in your POP
account, and when you then click on "Reply" Outlook is automatically using
the IMAP account to reply from, (are these two entirely different emails by
the way?) then I would suggest there is something you aren't telling us
about your mail setup. This just doesn't "happen"

"Janice" wrote in message
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All mail gets sent on the pop account that is the default (as long as I
remember to manually choose it). Replies from that account are then
forwarded onto the imap account so that I can access them from home, work,
mobile etc.

This explains it, then. You receive all mail via the IMAP account, since you
forward the mail received by the other accounts to the IMAP mailbox. Outlook
never sees messages arriving from those POP accounts, only from the IMAP
account, so all replies go back out through the IMAP account. Outlook doesn't
care one whit to which address the original message was addressed. All it
knows if what account was used to receive the message.
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