Originally Posted by UAVirgin
Outlook does work this way for me on new emails, but on reply's it sometimes doesn't pick up the correct account.
Let me clarify the problem...the problem is which SMTP server outlook uses to send out the email, not which account it uses. It should use the SMTP server associated with the account sending the email but this no longer happens.
It appears that my only way around this problem is to use Send/Receive Groups and manually send my email from accounts other than the default. It is hard to tell what caused this all of the sudden, but I don't have the time to dig into it or rebuild my Outlook setup.
ScottC, thanks for the pointers on Thunderbird. If I could sync my calendar to phone Nokia I'd jump today. I live by my calendar and need to have my phone sync with my computer.
I just tested a bunch of accounts and I do not ever see this problem -- using Earthlink, GMail, MSN, Hotmail and corp. email accounts. Every one authenticated via the sending-account's SMTP server before getting to me.
Now, keep in mind that (typically) every one of these SMTP emails must pass thru SMTP port 25 (exept GMail)
of the ISP that I/you are using before it can go out anywhere else.
Are you sure that is not somehow screwing things up for you -- although I have no idea why?