We have recently installed SBS 2003 on the server and Outlook 2003 on all
workstations. Each workstatiion Outlook setup has an Exchange Account and
one or more POP3 Email accounts. Most of the machines have more than one
POP3 Email accounts. The POP3 accounts are not using the SMTP feature of
SBS 2003/Exchange. They are configured to go directly to the ISP SMTP. On
each workstation, I want the default email to be one of the POP3 accounts.
I set this in the Tools-Email Accounts (or Control Panel-Email). However,
something keeps changing the default back to the Exchange account. How can
I set a default and make it stay?

Thanks.

Stephen Hopkins
stephen@computerhelp.biz

Re: SBS/Outlook 2003: Default Email Account by Kevin

Kevin
Thu Jan 15 19:58:39 CST 2004

the default email account is configured from AD Users&Computers (double
click on a particular user, then go to Email Addresses tab). The address
that is boldfaced is the default email address. you can add others.

You have me curious ... if you have a company wide email account for every
user, why does every user have multiple POP accounts in addition to their
Exchange account? and why would one of their POP accounts be their default
one?

Perhaps there's a better way to handle what you are trying to do. Frankly,
what frightens me is that for every user that has one or more POP accounts
bypassing the server, you have increased the opportunities for virus, etc -
it only takes one user to disable their a/v to have that happen. I like all
my email (pop or otherwise) coming thru the server first.

-kw

"Stephen Hopkins" <stephen@computerhelp.biz> wrote in message
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> We have recently installed SBS 2003 on the server and Outlook 2003 on all
> workstations. Each workstatiion Outlook setup has an Exchange Account and
> one or more POP3 Email accounts. Most of the machines have more than one
> POP3 Email accounts. The POP3 accounts are not using the SMTP feature of
> SBS 2003/Exchange. They are configured to go directly to the ISP SMTP.
On
> each workstation, I want the default email to be one of the POP3 accounts.
> I set this in the Tools-Email Accounts (or Control Panel-Email). However,
> something keeps changing the default back to the Exchange account. How
can
> I set a default and make it stay?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Stephen Hopkins
> stephen@computerhelp.biz
>
>