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

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

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:

1. Create a new message.
2. Click the Accounts option on the toolbar in the new message window.
3. 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 <account name>

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 "Default" (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.