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How to always send a new email from specific account in Outlook?

Author Siluvia Last modified

Supposing you have created multiple email accounts in your Outlook, when sending an email in Outlook, the email account displayed in the From field depends on which account you are currently in. No matter which account you are currently in, you want to always send new emails from a specific email account, the following tutorial can help you, the method in this tutorial can help you.

Always send a new email from specific account with VBA code


Always send a new email from specific account with VBA code

This VBA code can help you easily send new emails from specific account in Outlook. Please do as follows.

1. Please press "Alt" + "F11" to open the "Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications" dialog box.

2. Expand the "Project1" > "Microsoft Outlook Objects" by double-clicking them. And then double click the "ThisOutlookSession" to open the "VbaProject.OTM" dialog box.

steps of always sending a new email from specific account in outlook

3. Copy and paste the below VBA code into the dialog box.

VBA: always send a new email from specific account.

Public Sub NewBySpecAccount()
Dim oAccount As Outlook.Account
Dim oMail As Outlook.MailItem
For Each oAccount In Application.Session.Accounts
If oAccount.DisplayName = "Your account name" Then
    Set oMail = Application.CreateItem(olMailItem)
    oMail.SendUsingAccount = oAccount
    oMail.Display
End If
Next
End Sub

4. Now you need to change the "Your account name" to the email account that you want to always send new emails.

steps of always sending a new email from specific account in outlook

5. Then press "F5" key on the keyboard to run the VBA code.

6. After running the VBA code, a new "Message" window will pop up, please compose your email and click "Send" button to send it.

Note: This VBA code have successfully tested in Outlook 2007, 2010 and 2013, but don’t execute in Exchange 2007 and 2010.


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