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Sending email as alias in office365?
I know this may have been an old thread but I didn't see any of the real answers here. Maybe my setup is different enough but this is as easy as typing in the alias that you want to send from.
Although this has been available in earlier versions, I'm now using Office 365. The From field of an outgoing message is a dropdown field and in the dropdown I can select to send from any of my current email accounts OR I can select the option listed as "Other email address". With this option, I can enter any other address I chose and the recipient sees this other address as the source and the reply goes to the "other" address. You do need to select one of your current email addresses for the outgoing SMTP service for delivery, but the recipient should see the Reply-to as being the other address you specified.
A review of the recipients header would reveal the source as your SMTP server, but the reply should go to the entered address.
Hi Chris,
let's suppose your default email address in Office 365 is SMTP:charette1@contoso.com and your alias is smtp:charette2@contoso.com.
Could you please explain how can you send as charette2@contoso.com using Office 365 OWA?
Thank you,
Victor Ivanidze
f I missed the part of the part of the question about using OWA, then I apologize, I don't use OWA, but use the desktop version of MS Outlook. In the desktop versions, you can do as I discussed. Here is the same explanation with an image showing how this is accomplished.
When creating a new email or replying to an email, the From field is a dropdown. Open the dropdown, and below all the email accounts you have configured is an option for "Other Email Address..." Select this, and enter the alias email address you want to use. Then, when the recipient opens the email, the Reply-To address they see will be the alias address that you entered.
I've tried this myself, setting up a DL, removing the alias from my primary profile and setting it up as the email address in the DL, waited for replication, and emailed both internal and external to my organization and the email head still shows from my primary address. We also have Exclaimer set up to auto insert our signature lines and if it's not reflecting the correct @, the correct signature does not apply. Any other suggestions?
