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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
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?
I am considering using the DL route and testing has gone well. One issue I am facing is that I am populating Email Signature via AD attributes via Hub Transport Rules. I can't find any way to add a phone number to a DL. Does anyone know if this is possible? If not, do any of the other options like Shared Mailbox or Email contact or other give an option to configure a phone number to the AD object.
- A alias and sec mail address is basically the same! You can only send from your primary mail address! You can have two mail addresses but then you need separate accounts for these in order to choose which to send from
AdamCorrect. Alternatively you can use a third-party cloud service to send as alias.
