From field can't be defaulted when 'Replying to an email' 2

[HarryMann]

I currently have my ISP forward mail to Spamcop, and download and read it from there. So I have 2 mail Accounts setup in Outlook Express 6, my normal ISP's and Spamcop, the latter set to syncronise and download and the former not to.
I always want to have any outgoing mail's 'From:' field set as my normal ISP address, not Spamcop.
When creating a 'New' mail, by setting my ISP's Account as Default this works fine!
However, when 'Replying' to an email, I always get the Spamcop address in the 'From:' field, presumably as this is the default account.
Is there any combination of configuration options that will ALWAYS ensure that the 'From:' field is my ISP's normal email address (the default account)?

Thanks

 

[InnoTech]

depending on the reason that you want to do this there could be a easy way to fix it. if you want it so that your recipients reply to your isp address or spamcop it has a setting do set the reply address as something different. or if it is the way it is displayed in the recipient's email then you can change the name on both of the accounts to match each other so no one would really know the difference when recieving an email from either account set-up in your outlook.

if you don't understand what i'm saying then please tell me. maybe i'm not positive what you want to do.

here to help,

Ivan

 

[gigahertz]

Look here >

http://www.stopspam.org/email/headers/headers.html

This page has some good information about your question, but also shows how it will still be in the headers ...

 

[HarryMann]

Thanks both of oyu very much. Very helpful.

It does in fact return to correct address (my default) but its just that the headers 'look' confusing to the other user and of course, I don't necessarily want to reveal my (dupe, incoming spamcop account address).
I think this is all about the article on the futility of expoecting the From: To: fields to actually mean anything - they don't! And OE's rather dichotomous behaviour between Creating New and Replying To
Replying To: should still put the From address as my default email really (I think) - was a bit surpised to see it was using my mail receiving synchronised account - maybe this is wee oversight @MS (a legacy feature?)

Thanks anyway