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Brent Waldrop
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Apr 08, 2017

Sending email as alias in office365?

I used to have my domain email hosted in office 365. The reason i switched was because of a lack of a feature i really needed. You had the ability to create multiple aliases in office 365 so you coul...
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ab1234260
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Mar 09, 2021

afabozzi-20 Hi, i did this but ended up with a bug when i resent an email ... it also resent the original email... so if you sent something to someone then opened the sent email and used the resend email option, it resent the new version to the original person.... basically it was buggy.. honestly i don't know why MSoft can't just create an option for multiple email accounts that doesn't involve additional mailboxes... 

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afabozzi-20
Brass Contributor
Mar 09, 2021

ab1234260I see what you are saying I will have to test that I don't use that feature often. I completely agree though this should have been native functionality in 2003 in my opinion however there must be something programmatically that makes it tricky implement or Microsoft is focused on other things and consider this a low priority.

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    Traveler2045
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 30, 2021

    Microsoft has now enabled send-as Alias on April 29, 2021. However, you have to enable it via powershell for the organization. You can find the instructions in https://www.derekseaman.com/2021/04/microsoft-365-can-now-send-email-as-proxy-address.html

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      afabozzi-20
      Brass Contributor
      Apr 30, 2021

      Traveler2045That is great news thanks for that! I was so excited I tried it right away and it did not work though 😞

       

      I set SendFromAliasEnabled to True

      I then went to my Outlook and in the from box I selected other email addresses

      I then typed out mailto:anthony@pivotcustom.com (it saved it from my previous attempt)

      I then sent an email to an address NOT on the exchange server(gmail,  hotmail, ect.)

      Sending DID work though so that was different because normally this would fail

      Above is my sent message to the external account

      Next here is my received message header:

      From shows mailto:anthony@americanrampcompany.comhowever the header.from shows as pivotcustom.com (I searched the header info and that is the only instance of pivotcustom.com in the message header)

      If I click reply on the message and view the To address it is wrong

       

      So in conclusion sending works now however it does not translate on the other side still. Can anyone else test and confirm? maybe I am missing something.  Thanks.

      • ab1234260's avatar
        ab1234260
        Copper Contributor
        Apr 30, 2021
        I finally figured out how to send from a sharedmailbox... so don't need this any more but boy it took ages... !

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