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Outlook Express 5.0 - From address
Q: I was wondering how might a guy using a computer with several young women change the From part of the mail header. My name keeps showing up on all the emails the kids send out, and its getting a little suspicious.
A: If you have different Outlook Express accounts set up for all users, just click on the New Message like you normally would. When the new message window comes up with your name (the default account) in the From box, click your mouse pointer in the From box and a dropdown list of all the accounts will show up. Click on the account you want the email to be from.
Note: To set up separate accounts or multiple accounts for Outlook Express users, click Tools, Accounts, the Mail tab and then Add.
Outlook Express - To: Group minus one
Q: Is it possible to set up a group in address book, choose this item for the To line, and then for just the one mailing remove one of the recipients without permanently changing the group list? This would be helpful in forwarding jokes to several people excluding the one who sent the joke to begin with.
A: There is no easy way to do this. You can put the Group in the To line, close the email (click  ) so it is saved to the Drafts folder and then open the email from the Drafts folder. Now, all
the individual email addresses of the Group show up in the To line and you can delete an address without destroying the properties of the Group.
Note: Forwarding emails makes the email you send an enclosure or adds ">" or some other character to the original line of text. Stop it! Don't do that! Just copy the text and paste it in a clean fresh email message. How many of you really enjoy opening attachment after attachment just to get to the original message that now has ">>>>>>>" in front of each line of text?
For more information on Moron Windows answers, click the Windows Start button and choose Help. Select the Index tab and type in "Answers from Moron Windows". If you find the answers, you have an entirely different version of Windows than we do! It's that simple!
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