Microsoft KB Archive/296619

= OL2002: How to Select an E-mail Account to Send Messages =

Article ID: 296619

Article Last Modified on 9/26/2001

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Outlook 2002 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q296619



SUMMARY
This article describes how to select an e-mail account to send messages in Outlook 2002.



MORE INFORMATION
In Outlook 2002, you can send and receive messages from multiple Internet e-mail accounts. If you have more than one e-mail account configured in Outlook 2002, select the e-mail account to use when you send messages. To do this:  Create a new message. Click the Accounts option on the toolbar in the new message window. Select the account that you want to use to send this message.NOTE: After you select the account that you want to use to send the message, the following informational note appears above the To field:

This message will be sent via



If you do not select an e-mail account to use when you send the message, a new message is sent using your default e-mail account. When you reply to a message, the reply message is sent from the e-mail account that received the message.

Use the following steps to verify which e-mail account is your default account:
 * 1) On the Tools menu, click E-mail Accounts.
 * 2) Click View or change existing e-mail accounts, and then click Next.
 * 3) The default e-mail account will have the word &quot;Default&quot; (without quotation marks) in parentheses.
 * 4) To set a different e-mail account as your default account, click the preferred account, and then click the Set as Default button.

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