The "Default" account setting applies when you are reading emails in Quick
views.
If you are reading emails in an account, that account that will listed in
From when you click New.
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Ron Sommer
MS MVP-Mail
"slk759" <> wrote in message
news:0A599DFC-8AE7-43C6-902D-...
> Let's just not address the issue with Vista and WLM since you are now on
> W7 . . . . W7 does not have an email program of its own, but that doesn't
> mean you didn't get WLM downloaded with your W7. I didn't "download" W7
> so I'm not sure how Microsoft setup the download - if they included WLM.
> (But I am running W7 and have WLM installed.) If you look at the top
> title bar it should say it is WLM.
>
> Go to Tools - Accounts and select the .cox account and select the button
> to the right to make it the "Default" account. That fixes sending as your
> .cox account. If you ever want to send from the .live account you can do
> so by clicking the "From" line in the email compose screen.
>
> Since Windows Live Mail is your "mail handler" all of the emails from the
> .cox account are going to populate under that account in your general mail
> view. If you don't want to have them in both places, you can go to
> Tools - Accounts - select the .cox account - Properties - Advanced Tab -
> in bottom pane, UNcheck "keep a copy on the server" . . . . . they will no
> longer be stored on the .cox account server, but will still show up in WLM
> under the .cox account.
>
>
>
> "toneywho" <> wrote in message
> news:96A3E5FB-15F6-4F19-A244-...
>> I had posted this at another group but got no help, maybe here, with
>> additional info:
>>
>> I had recently signed up on the net for windows.live email while still
>> running Vista because it was my understanding that W7 had no mail
>> program.
>> Somehow that mail program started sending out my mail with a .live
>> address
>> and not my windows mail .cox.net address. Things got more confusing for
>> me
>> after I downloaded W7 and seen there was an internal email program after
>> all
>> that looks pretty much like windows mail! I configured it to read and
>> send
>> from my cox.net email client but was still getting mail from the Internet
>> account. So I added the .live account and now I'm receiving email (the
>> same
>> email) in both accounts! And people are getting email from me with the
>> .live address and not the .cox.net address that I prefer. How do I
>> disable
>> the .live account and just receive and send from the .cox.net account. I
>> know I caused all this but windows is somewhat at fault by telling there
>> would be no email with W7. So my problem is I'm receiving email in both
>> the
>> windows.live account and the SAME email in the cox.net account which are
>> both on my windows.live desktop. Is there a way to get ALL my email just
>> to
>> the cox.net account and have that address (cox.net) as the sending
>> address.
>> TIA
>
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