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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / February 2007per-contact default outgoing SMTP account
I use multiple POP accounts within Outlook. How may I define which account is used as the default for each contact? For example, I might define that e-mails to family members should always go through account #1 and e-mails to other friends should always go through account #2, etc. I realize I can do this on a per-message basis, but I would like to define the per-recipient default, so it is pre-defined and always consistent without me having to click the "Accounts" drop-down every time. Functionally, it could also be like assigning each contact to a category and then have a specific account assigned to each category. Outlook has no features to do that.  SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx >I use multiple POP accounts within Outlook. How may I define which account > is used as the default for each contact? For example, I might define that [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > like assigning each contact to a category and then have a specific account > assigned to each category. Wow, that is a surprising and seemingly simple oversight. Certainly if Outlook can be configured to use multiple outgoing accounts and the outgoing account can be changed just before hitting "Send" each time, it seems like it would be easy to have that as a per-contact option. I guess it could get hairy if a message is addressed to two people with different outgoing servers. How difficult would it be if I wanted to write an add-in or customization to handle what I'm looking to do? Would it even be possible? Has it already been written by somebody else? Thanks. > Outlook has no features to do that. > How difficult would it be if I wanted to write an add-in or customization to > handle what I'm looking to do? It would be difficult if not impossible in versions before Outlook 2007. > I guess it could get > hairy if a message is addressed to two people with different outgoing servers. Exactly. Another issue would be: What should Outlook do if the account for a contact record is not present in the current Outlook session? SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Wow, that is a surprising and seemingly simple oversight. Certainly if > Outlook can be configured to use multiple outgoing accounts and the outgoing [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > >> Outlook has no features to do that. |
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