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Sending email as alias in office365?
I know this thread is a little old, but it ranks highly under a Google for this issue so wanted to add more information.
It is now possible to send for alias addresses quite simply using O365 and Outlook.
- Simply add the alias to your account in the usual way in O365 Admin.
- In Outlook, open a new mail and from the "Options" ribbon ensure the 'From' button is pressed to reveal this field.
- Click this drop down and select "other email address".
- Under here you can manually type the email you want to send from
- The next time you return to the from drop down, the address will be there to select with 1 click.
Hope this helps someone one!
I am sorry, but I am afraid that it doesn't work...
AFAIK, It is still not possible to send as an alias.
Following your steps, the recipient will get anyway an email sent from the primary address and not from the alias.
cc VasilMichev
- This does 100% work, see these screen shots:
http://personal.klio.co.uk/create-selected.png
As you can see, the top option, mike@mi******.me.uk, is the primary address, the others are typed into Outlook at set as aliases in O365
http://personal.klio.co.uk/outcome.png
When I look at the headers in my outlook, the address typed is shown.Do you have another completely different email address? Try to send an email from an EOL alias, using your technique, to that email address and you will see that the sender of the email is, in any case, the primary address and not the alias.
As long as the domain being used is served from the same server you're sending from a different domain is no different to an alias of the same domain.
I have not checked to see if an address served from a different server would work, I would expect it not to as doing so would probably fail SPF check and thus lead to a bad experience.
- Did you try the steps I’ve written down?
I have this implemented at several customers and is the only solution to send from an alias.I don't need to try it: I know that it works... ;-)
In fact, it is one of the veeery classic workarounds for solving the problem.
