How To Fix The “Send As” folder bug in Outlook
One of the many power features of Microsoft Exchange Server is that you can send messages on behalf of another user. If your organization uses a shared account for support or orders or sales that is used by many people to send and receive emails, you may have encountered this.
For this explanation, we’ll use user@organization.com as the personal account and support@organization.com as the shared account. In Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007, if you send a message as support@organization.com, it will end up in the sent folder of user@organization.com even though the recipients will the message as being from support@organization.com. This doesn’t make much sense, does it?
Here’s the fix for Outlook 2003:
- Close Outlook
- Install this hotfix: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953803
- Install this hotfix: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953804
Here’s the fix for Outlook 2007:
- Close Outlook
- Install this hotfix: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970944
- Download this file: http://www.everonit.com/techtips/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Outlook2007SendAsFix.reg_.zip
- Unzip and double-click the reg file to add the registry key
Now the messages sent from either account will show up in the appropriate folders!
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