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Changing email address gives MSO Outlook problem
I am changing my normal email address from one I've had for many years from "mail.com" to a gmail address. I use MSO Outlook 2010 on my PC to handle my emails, both for my main email address and other, lesser used ones. Each address has a different Outlook .PST file. The main one, and the one for my current normal email address, being outlook.pst. I use POP email.
When I've changed to using my gmail address I want to keep using outlook.pst for my main email.
For, hopefully, ease of understanding, let's assume these are the email addresses:-
email-1 is my old normal address
email-2 is my new gmail address.
My plan has been to create another .pst file, email-1.pst, and setting it to handle newly received email for email-1.
Change the account details for outlook.pst to the email-2 account, both the normal details and the additional details.
This is working fine in that new email-1 emails go into the Inbox in email-1.pst, and emails sent from there are fine; new email-2 emails go into the Inbox in outlook.pst, and emails sent from that account are - almost - fine.
And there's the rub.
An email sent from email-2 goes out apparently ok, and looks ok to my son, a gmail user.
However if I send an email to myself from the email-1 account, Outlook shows in the From info
my_name <my_name@gmail.com>; on behalf of; my_name <my_name@mail.com>
Looking at the email properties I see
Sender: my_name <email-2@gmail.com>
From: my_name <my-name@mail.com>
X-Google-Original-From: "my_name" <email-2@gmail.com>
Reply-To: <email-2@gmail.com>
So despite me choosing the correct From email in the drop-down list it still uses the old email address in the From data.
Thoughts on what I've done wrong would be most welcome.
TIA