Ravi Shankar

How to set default email account in Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2010

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When you have multiple email accounts configured in Outlook 2010 and you want to set a default email account then you can use Account Settings to specify the default mail account. This is quite useful when you want have a specific account to be default while composing a new email message. Listed below are the steps to specify default email account in Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2010

Step 1: Click File menu then select Info from the menu list

Step 2: In the Info screen select Account Settings

Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2010 Info Screen

Account Settings in Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2010

Step 3: Then navigate to Email tab in Account Settings window.

Email accounts in Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2010

Step 4: Now select the Account which needs to the default email account and click on the Set as Default link. This link will be enabled only after selecting an email account and which is not already set as default.

Set as Default email account in Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2010

Also See: Change message format in Outlook 2007, 2010, 2013 and Outlook 2011 for Mac

Comments

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  2. jp Avatar
    jp

    did nt work

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  3. greg Avatar
    greg

    doesn’t work – was quite simple in 2003 – would talk to microsoft but after 4 hours on the phone (range of drop outs/transfers etc) i was advised they are now closed for the weekend….McDonalds should close on weekends and after hours would suit their employees a lot better

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  4. Adrian Avatar
    Adrian

    Yep…. Doesn’t work, if you have both inboxes set on your favourites and you have one selected and you click new it will email via that account. FAIL…….

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  5. Mon Avatar
    Mon

    At first it wouldn’t default to my other account but I kept clicking it and after a few more times, voila, it worked. Hope it keeps working. Thanks

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  6. Elaine Avatar
    Elaine

    Doesn’t work like it is described in this blog. You should first try it and test it for sure before posting so people don’t waste time. Thanks anyway.

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  7. ilma Avatar
    ilma

    I have 3 email accounts defined in Outlook 2010 (on a 64-bit Win7 Pro laptop). 1 is my work exchange account and the other 2 are private POP/SMTP accounts. Even though the Exchange account is set as the default, when I click on ‘New’ to create an email, it has set one of the POP accounts as the ‘From’ account! Why is this, and how can I make sure the Exchange account is the default ‘From’?

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  8. Richard Hughes Avatar
    Richard Hughes

    I am having the same problem ilma. You change the default but new mail always shows another account.

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  9. Robert Brunson Avatar
    Robert Brunson

    Clicking the “Set as default” button didn’t work for me, either; however, I did discover that the first email address in the list becomes the default. So, just select the email address you want for the default send-address and use the up and down arrows to move it to the top of the list. You will see that the “Select as default” checkmark stays on whatever address is listed first.

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  10. Tobi Avatar
    Tobi

    It actually works fine, if you know a special thing about Outlook: if a mail-account is selected, it takes this mail-account and not the default-account.

    So if you have 2 addresses A and B and choose A as your default mail-address – When you’re inside the Inbox of B and click “New E-Mail”, it will use B and not A!

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  11. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    Same here. When using exchange the from field is empty one has only one email account, but multiple mailboxes.. How to set it to a default mailbox??

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  12. Pero Avatar
    Pero

    It works:
    It depends on what is selected when you click “New email”.
    If your selection is inbox (or any other folder) of one account, new email will be sent from that account. When you change to another account, and click “New email” it will be sent through that account.

    e.g. if you are looking at emails of a hotmail account, when you click New email, it will by default be sent through hotmail account. If you are looking at emails of gmail (or any other account), when you click New email, it will by default be sent through gmail (or that other) account.

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  13. PhantomTramp Avatar
    PhantomTramp

    http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/2010/multiple-accounts-and-the-default-account/#sp1

    Gives a registy edit to fix this issue. If you are squeamish about editing the registry, they also have an merge file.

    Worked for me, your milage may vary…

    The Tramp

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  14. marshal Avatar
    marshal

    I have configured 3 mail accounts in my outlook & get confused how to set default email account of my office mail. Above steps are helpful to set y office email as default email account. Thanks for sharing it.

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  15. Sarunas Avatar
    Sarunas

    Use the arrows up down. When after it account goes up it automatically becomes default.

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    1. Ravi Shankar Avatar
      Ravi Shankar

      Thanks for your help.

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  16. Patrick Avatar
    Patrick

    Outlook 10: set ‘default’ .. opened new email – asks me to ‘choose and addres’…no automatic set to default – suggestions????

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  17. Peter Higgins Avatar
    Peter Higgins

    I can delete the old email account, but the mail file associated with it is still the default and not the new email account. Set as default is greyed out. So it isn’t an option.

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