questions about Mail Clients & multiple POP/SMTP account

[theDruid]

Hi all,

I am helping a friend upgrade from Dial-Up to ADSL, as their local exchange has just been upgraded.

At the moment, they use an e-mail account provided by their ISP (freeserve), which they access through POP/SMTP on Outlook 2000.

Once they change ISP with the upgrade to ADSL, they will no longer be able to use the freeserve account for outgoing (SMTP) mail. They can keep the old e-mail address though and access incoming mail via POP (although you have to renew/retrieve the freeserve account every 90 days or so if you're not using it as your ISP).

So, I've got another e-mail account all ready to go for them, which they can use via POP/SMTP.

My problem is this - when I set up both accounts in Outlook 2000, if a message is received on the old (freeserve) account, Outlook wants to reply to the message with freeserve, even if the other new account is set up as the default.

This will not be possible once the SMTP on the freeserve account stops working.

Does anyone know how you can force Outlook 2000 to send all outgoing messages (including replies/forwards etc..) with the default account, regardless of which account they were received on?

I might be able to persuade my friend to change mail client if necessary, as their setup is going to change a little with the upgrade anyway. I'm not too keen on Outlook 2000, and they don't use anything that's not there in Outlook Express. Or perhaps they should try the Mozilla client - is it called Thunderbird? I rate Mozilla very highly.

Does anyone have any helpful suggestions for me?

thanks,
theDruid.

[Faustus]

Never really messed with multi accounts. Tbird is ok though.
Also look into Eudora though, its a great client.

[Dr. DOS]

Windows Outlook V9 and 10 you can set up multiple profiles. When you start Outlook it will prompt your for he profile (and as such the settings, POP3 settings, etc)

[theDruid]

Thanks for the replies.

I may have a look at Thunderbird and see if I can set it up the way I want it to work - OE doesn't seem to be any different to Outlook, which shouldn't surprise me. I used Eudora at Uni a few years ago, and didn't like it much - but I'll have another look at that too.

As far as I understand it, separate profiles is not really what I'm after.

What I want is for my friend to be able to use the new account as their normal/default account, but continue to receive messages sent to the old address, preferably without having to periodically do something to check the legacy account. All outgoing messages will have to be from the new account.

The simpler the solution, the better - in this case, as my friend is not a big fan of messing around with the PC; they just want it to 'work'!

cheers,
theDruid.

[SquirrelDip]

You may want to try running an SMTP server on your local computer (look at http://www.postcastserver.com/ <- free).

You could then send all outgoing mail regardless of which account it's originating from. I was using this at work before we set up an exchange server and it worked well for our needs at the time.

We had a few issues but they were related to 3-4 people working in a peer to peer environment, you shouldn't have any problems working stand alone.

[sterno]

To keep things simple:

Set the outbound (SMTP) mail server for the old account to the SMTP server for the new account. That will allow mail to be sent out for that account.

Set the "Reply-To" address in the old account settings to the new e-mail address. If the people at the other end have reasonably modern mail software they'll get the new address when they hit Reply.

[snafu099]

Most current email programs can handle mutipule pop3 account.

In the settings of each pop3 account there should be seperate lines for incoming mail server, outgoiing mail serve and for return address which only needs an entry if it is different from that of the recieve.

Proper use of the settings provides a lot of optiions

Also, most ISP's will not allow mail to be sent via thier server unless you are connected to the net with them, with some allowing it if the settings are configured properly

I am refering to having multiple isp accounts with email setup to recieve from all of them but send by the default

[stiltman]

I have 5 different email accounts setup under OE
3 are pop3 and 2 are HTML hotmail accounts. All under the same profile...