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Shared and group mailbox addresses not appearing in "From:" field
- Nov 19, 2018
Hey Deleted,
I worked at a large IT services provider who did Exchange and Office 365 for tons of customers, so I have dealt with this type of complaint/issue allot.
I can tell you 99% of the time, after digging into these issues extensively with the client, it would come down to how the email addresses were configured in the outlook client. It looks like you have tested allot of options, and when I first read the title of your email, my first thought was "I bet you he is just having it automapped, and has never actually created the shared/group mailbox as an additional mailbox in the account."
So why it would be work, I would give that a try. Normally having the account actually added as an additional mailbox, rather than just mapped in, seems to help. I would try this on just one account. You may not even have to remove the auto-mapping, but just go through the process of adding an additional mailbox. Try the "manual steps" from here - https://support.office.com/en-us/article/open-and-use-a-shared-mailbox-in-outlook-d94a8e9e-21f1-4240-808b-de9c9c088afd
Once you have that in, restart your outlook, and see if when it comes back online you have the mailbox in the from field.
Goodluck!
Adam
We recently started to experience this as well. For about a few months things were working then a recent build in Outlook broke the expected ability to select the Shared Mailbox in the FROM field on new emails. Nothing seems to work to get this functionality back and Microsoft's official documentation still shows that its supported using the traditional manner (add the email once to the FROM field manually and then see it as a choice from there on out)
- EricBiletskyApr 11, 2022Copper Contributor
Sorry if I'm late to this thread, but I'm despearatekly trying to find an answer to a related problem, that being when I add 'Additional Mailboxes' I never get the "From button" to show up, only the "Bcc" no matter how many we add, anyone seen this issue before?Manou2295