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Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / June 2004Replying to email using the same address it was sent to
I've got Eudora on another computer and Outlook Express on this one. I'd like to find out how to accomplish the following on both programs. I would appreciate anyone pointing me in the right direction with this. I have tried every possible combination of settings in the Tools>Account menu and still can't make the dang program reply to an email and have the "from" field automatically show the "to" address where the sender sent the mail. I have noticed one thing though that might shed some light on this nonsense... If I look in the Tools>Account>Mail tab.... there are 3 email addresses listed there -- all in alphabetical order top to bottom. For the purpose of discussion they are aafred@verizon.com, bbfred@verizon.com and ccfred@verizon.com. The address ccfred@verizon.com is marked "default." Now, going back to the inbox, there is an email there that was sent to me at ccfred@verizon.com. I open it, click on "reply" and there in the "from" field is aafred@verizon.com. I close that one and open an email that was sent to my address bbfred@verizon.com. Again, when I click reply, the email address aafred@verizon.com appears in the "from" field. This is what always happens when I reply, whether the email was sent to me at aafred@verizon.com, bbfred@verizon.com or ccfred@verizon.com. Now.... I go back to Tools>Accounts>Mail tab. There I delete the account aafred@verizon.com. Now I create a new account called ddfred@verizon.com. I leave ccfred@verizon.com as the "default". Now there are 3 accounts listed.... bbfred@verizon.com, ccfred@verizon.com and ddfred@verizon.com. The address ccfred@verizon.com is still listed as "default." Now I go back to the inbox and open the same emails as before. Then click on reply. Now the email address that appears in the "from" field is bbfred@verizon.com. From this exercise, it looks to me like OE always picks the top email address in the list under Tools>Accounts>Mail. The question is.... how can I disable this feature and cause the email program to put the "sent to" address as the "reply" address when I am replying to email? >I've got Eudora on another computer and Outlook Express on this one. > >I'd like to find out how to accomplish the following on both programs. I >would appreciate anyone pointing me in the right direction with this. Why did you only discuss the OE example, in an email that you only sent to Eudora newsgroups? For Eudora, the majority, for some value of majority between 51% and 90%, of the time a reply to an email will default to using the email address it was sent to as the "From" address. IME, those times it doesn't, and defaults to using the Dominant personality's email address, are mainly when the incoming email a) had multiple addresses in the "To:" field, and mine wasn't anywhere near the first, b) was received as a "CC:", or c) was received as a "BCC:" And sometimes it just decides to be contrary and use my Dominant personality. IOW, it's a bug that Qualcomm has never fixed. No matter what email client I have used, since I first got a second email address/account, I have *always* checked the from address on any reply I make. And have been doing it for so long now that it is more solidly set in my engrams than touch typing is, and I've been doing that for forty-mumble years. I would recommend you adopt the practice. Even if Qualcomm ever fixes the bug, the old Boy Scout motto, "Be Prepared", and the old axiom, "S[tuff] Happens" apply. If you always check and select your "From" address when you reply to an email, your reply will never go out with the wrong "From" address, no matter how much Qualcomm and MS screw with your mind.  SignatureOJ III [Email to Yahoo address may be burned before reading. Lower and crunch the sig and you'll net me at comcast.] Sounds like this is a common problem with both OE and Eudora. Can anyone else recommend a work-around solution? Or, better yet, suggest an alternate email program where I don't have to check the "from" field every time I reply to an email? > >I've got Eudora on another computer and Outlook Express on this one. > > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Why did you only discuss the OE example, in an email that you > only sent to Eudora newsgroups? I mostly have been using OE -- just learning Eudora. OE is a REAL PAIN and I'm hoping that Eudora will be more user-friendly than OE. > For Eudora, the majority, for some value of majority between 51% > and 90%, of the time a reply to an email will default to using [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > never go out with the wrong "From" address, no matter how much > Qualcomm and MS screw with your mind. > Can anyone else recommend a work-around solution? In Eudora (at least Eudora 5.1 for Windows), if you want replies to emails sent to "JoeBlow@blah.com" to be from that same address, create the following filter: --------------------------------------- • If Header> To: • Contains> JoeBlow@blah.com ACTIONs: • Make Personality> JoeBlow@blah.com • Skip Rest --------------------------------------- When you hit Reply in an email sent to JoeBlow@blah.com, the From: address will automatically be JoeBlow@blah.com Thanks very much! And how simple that is, too!!! Would that also include incoming emails with "Joe...." in the cc: or bcc: fields? > > Can anyone else recommend a work-around solution? > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > When you hit Reply in an email sent to JoeBlow@blah.com, > the From: address will automatically be JoeBlow@blah.com "Kathy Morgan" <kmorgan@spamcop.net> wrote in > comp.mail.eudora and comp.mail.eudora.mswindows > are bogus groups, and since you aren't using a Mac, there is probably no > reason to include comp.mail.eudora.mac either. They are both good groups. Make not be accessible to you. [newsgroups trimmed & f'ups set] > Newsgroups: comp.mail.eudora,comp.mail.eudora.mac,comp.mail.eudora.mswindows, comp.mail.eudora.ms-windows (snip) comp.mail.eudora and comp.mail.eudora.mswindows are bogus groups, and since you aren't using a Mac, there is probably no reason to include comp.mail.eudora.mac either. > Sounds like this is a common problem with both OE and Eudora. > > Can anyone else recommend a work-around solution? Or, better yet, suggest > an alternate email program where I don't have to check the "from" field > every time I reply to an email? Please try to control your OE--it is top posting and failing to trim the excess material that you aren't addressing. > I mostly have been using OE -- just learning Eudora. OE is a REAL PAIN and > I'm hoping that Eudora will be more user-friendly than OE. I think it will be, but of course it will take time to get used to any new program. SignatureKathy > [newsgroups trimmed & f'ups set] Well, aren't you just Ms. Helpful today! 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