Check Multiple Email Accounts

Outlook 2007 lets you manage all your e-mail address to become a central location to work with all your messages. It is, however, add a little complexity in what you need to know what account any message given in the fall or will be sent on. The rest of this article explains how to do that.

When you receive messages

Talking about how Outlook handles messages and receives more than one account at a time. Outlook automatically checks each email account (the parameters of your group sending / receiving to determine at what time). The messages of most types of email accounts are found in the inbox, while messages from HTTP mail accounts such as Hotmail, are in their own collection of mail folders.

Wondering how you'll know which messages are associated with which accounts? It turns out that it's easy. Hotmail messages are in their own folders. For others, if you can not tell just by who they are, you can watch the field: the message. The email address of the sender addressed it appears here.

Except when it does not. Sometimes you'll see a nickname instead of the e-mail address in the To: field. If there is a nickname, follow these steps will show you the actual email address associated with this name:

1. Right-click on the nickname.
2. In the shortcut menu, click Properties Outlook.
3. In the dialog box, look on the e-mail page tabs. This will tell you the address where the message was sent.

Sending messages from multiple accounts

When sending messages, you have control of what counts Outlook uses. Outlook still has a default account to send messages (usually the first account you have configured), but you can tell Outlook to use a different account. Here's how it works:

• When you create a new message, Outlook assumes you want to use the default account to send (I'll tell you how to change the default account in minutes) unless you are specific to a different account.
• If you reply to a message, Outlook uses the account that the message arrived on. In other words, if you receive a message sent to your nominated account xyz@mymailserver.com, and you click Reply or Reply All, Outlook assumes you want to send the reply using the account xyz@mymailserver.com . Except, of course, you say Outlook to use a different account.
• When you forward a message, Outlook assumes you want to do this using the same account as the original message.

How Outlook selects the account to use a well meaning, but if you do not want to use the Outlook account think you want to use? How can you tell Outlook to use a different account? It's easy.

You say Outlook email account to use when you open the message window. When you have multiple accounts set up, you'll see a button below the account Send button. Click the Account button, and Outlook to display a menu containing all your e-mail. Select one, and that we use Outlook to send your message.

Changing the default account

Sometimes you may decide that you want Outlook to use a different email account by default. If you want to change the default, follow these steps:

1. Go to the main menu of Microsoft Outlook and click Tools> Account Settings to open the Settings dialog box of the account.
2. On the E-mail page tabs in the Settings dialog box of the account, find the box a list of all your mail accounts. Click the account you want to make your default account.
3. In the space above the accounts list, find and click Set Default. Outlook deletes this option until Y.