halcyoneus
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Hello,
I'll first explain what is needed and then what I've already done up to this point.
Technical background...
Outlook 2003 running on Sever 2003 TS with a backend exchange server.
Need to open 2 seperate exchange Outlook accounts from within 1 Outlook session AND have the ability to send and receive normal e-mails from both accounts (not sending on behalf of for the 2nd account).
This is what I have done so far...
I have 2 mail enabled AD accounts created (we'll say they are called me@abc.com and me@123.com, making me@abc.com the primary account). I've logged into and setup each exchange mailbox seperatly on the TS. While setting them up, I gave each account delagate rights to each other (full Editor access). Closed Outlook and went into the "Mail" option under the Control Panel. Clicked on the "Show Profiles" and made sure both the main and secondary accounts are added making sure the "Always use this Profile" is checked for the main account. Then went into "More Settings" under the main accounts Exchange Server settings. Went to the Advanced tab and added the secondary account to the "Open these additional mailbox's".
Now when I open Outlook, both accounts are listed on the left side, main on top and secondary on bottom. I sent test E-mails both accounts (from an e-mail address outside their network) and they show up under each individual inboxes as normal. If I reply from both accounts seperatly, they show up in my "outside the network" address correctly (meaning not on behalf of either account).
So I have 2 small glitches here...
1) Reply from an e-mail sends a message from the correct account, but if I create a new e-mail from scratch, it defaults to the main e-mail address (me@abc.com). I can manually change the "from" in the new e-mail and select the secondary account by browsing. That's not ideal and would like to know if there is a way based on how this is setup to either not have a default from at all OR a different way to initiate a "new" e-mail that would know which account to put in the "from" field?
2) I have 2 seperate signatures for each account. As far as I can tell, the signature settings are global for Outlook and I can't specifty which signature to use based on the account. When you open a new e-mail, you can go to "options" and select a different signature, but it doesn't change the setting globally until you close and re-open a new e-mail. I can manually make the change before I open a new e-mail, but knowing and remembering to make the change for each e-mail is not realistic.
Anyone have any ideas???
~Chad
I'll first explain what is needed and then what I've already done up to this point.
Technical background...
Outlook 2003 running on Sever 2003 TS with a backend exchange server.
Need to open 2 seperate exchange Outlook accounts from within 1 Outlook session AND have the ability to send and receive normal e-mails from both accounts (not sending on behalf of for the 2nd account).
This is what I have done so far...
I have 2 mail enabled AD accounts created (we'll say they are called me@abc.com and me@123.com, making me@abc.com the primary account). I've logged into and setup each exchange mailbox seperatly on the TS. While setting them up, I gave each account delagate rights to each other (full Editor access). Closed Outlook and went into the "Mail" option under the Control Panel. Clicked on the "Show Profiles" and made sure both the main and secondary accounts are added making sure the "Always use this Profile" is checked for the main account. Then went into "More Settings" under the main accounts Exchange Server settings. Went to the Advanced tab and added the secondary account to the "Open these additional mailbox's".
Now when I open Outlook, both accounts are listed on the left side, main on top and secondary on bottom. I sent test E-mails both accounts (from an e-mail address outside their network) and they show up under each individual inboxes as normal. If I reply from both accounts seperatly, they show up in my "outside the network" address correctly (meaning not on behalf of either account).
So I have 2 small glitches here...
1) Reply from an e-mail sends a message from the correct account, but if I create a new e-mail from scratch, it defaults to the main e-mail address (me@abc.com). I can manually change the "from" in the new e-mail and select the secondary account by browsing. That's not ideal and would like to know if there is a way based on how this is setup to either not have a default from at all OR a different way to initiate a "new" e-mail that would know which account to put in the "from" field?
2) I have 2 seperate signatures for each account. As far as I can tell, the signature settings are global for Outlook and I can't specifty which signature to use based on the account. When you open a new e-mail, you can go to "options" and select a different signature, but it doesn't change the setting globally until you close and re-open a new e-mail. I can manually make the change before I open a new e-mail, but knowing and remembering to make the change for each e-mail is not realistic.
Anyone have any ideas???
~Chad
