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Sending email as alias in office365?
Assuming the following:
You have a user with mailbox and e-mail address userA@contoso.com and you want him to receive and send mail from an address userA@aliasdomain.com.
Do the following:
1. Create a distribution group with e-mail address, the alias f.e. userA@aliasdomain.com
2. Add the user's primary account as a member to this distribution group (Members => userA@contoso.com) to make sure e-mail gets delivered to his mailbox.
3. Set External Senders as required
4. Make sure membership approval is set to not allow other members
5. Set Send As permissions for userA@contoso.com
Now this user can receive e-mail on his new userA@aliasdomain.com e-mail address + send from this e-mail. The only thing he needs to do is in Outlook or OWA select the From and change it to the alias address.
Cheers,
Joey
Joey Bergen thanks, these steps helped me to configure it for my case (had to use classic GUI of exchange admin to find the settings). To other office365 email addresses, this works, but to some other addresses it doesn't; "This message could not be sent. You do not have the permission to send the message on behalf of the specified user. " Thought it had to do with some delay in processing of the changes, but next day still have the issue. Or do I also need to have changes on the DNS level, for example to inform target mail servers to that my domain A is allowed to send messages of my domain B...? any ideas?
- a separate issue is adding all the appropriate dkim, dmarc spf to your dns for each domain
- I ran into a similar issue several years ago when i converted to using DistList as my conduit to setup other distinct email addresses to send and receive email .. i have multiple domains and want to be able to select specific email address to send as and for that to go as that email rather than my primary account email/domain
My recollection after adding this dist list for each separate email address .. Next outlook (windows desktop), make sure the from field exposed, click new email, click From .. at bottom of dropdown .. "other email address" ... my first instinct was to type in the email i setup on the DistList but when i sent this triggered error similar to what you report above, so solution after calls with Support was to just select directly from Global Address list .. once this is done it looks same as if you type it manually but the email goes without error. Once you get each email address setup in this fashion the UI in outlook remembers and you can select from the remembered emails in the dropdown. Again if you manually type in the email address it will also be remembered and fail to send each time. Just click and delete to remove then select directly from global address List per above.
Hope that helps.
Joey BergenCould this also work for scheduling a meeting using an email alias? I want far more functionality with the alias than is possible and only recently learned that I can't make an alias into its own email account, which is quite limiting for my business, unfortunately. Thanks.
This sending from a Domain Alias, not a user alias.
What is a domain alias and what it's difference from a secondary SMTP address (aka e-mail alias) of a user?
Strange. I decided to go with the DG option to allow me to send mail from the alias in an alternate domain. Let's call them nick@primarydomain.com and nick@aliasdomain.com for these purposes.
This meant removing the nick@aliasdomain.com address from the list of addresses associated with my own mailbox, then creating the DG as you describe, assigning permissions etc.
In the DG, I set the display name and alias values to the same values as my own account, merely because I want my name to show the same way.
It didn't work!!! Email shows as from nick@aliasdomain.com in sent folders on all my mail clients (which it didn't when the alias was attached to my mailbox directly). But it arrived at the recipient (externally) as addressed from nick@primarydomain.com. I also tried sending a mail from nick@aliasdomain.com to nick@primarydomain.com and it shows as from nick@primarydomain.com internally as well.
As a troubleshooting step, I set up a new DG for someoneelse@aliasdomain.com and tried sending from that address. It worked no problem from Outlook Web, immediately. Email arrived from someoneelse@aliascomain.com.
I tried changing the display name and alias on the original DG. Didn't make any difference.
So is it a a matter of time? That Exchange needs to propagate the change for a given recipient that was previously an alias directly against my mailbox and is now a DG?
Or is something is stuck in perpetuity because the address was previously an alias for my mailbox?
Any thoughts gratefully received!!!
It was a matter of time. And not all that long (30 minutes maybe)...
wrote:It was a matter of time. And not all that long (30 minutes maybe)...
So this is confirmed? Setting up the alias as a Distribution Group works to send mail from such alias on OWA?
Thanks.
- What does "f.e." mean?
f.e. means For Example.
Cheers
