Forum Discussion
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 could receive multiple emails for your domain in your inbox. For example say my domain was example.org. I could recieve emails from
bob@example.org <--primary email address
orders@example.org
newsletters@example.org.
the only big thing missing was that you could not "send" from any email other than the primary email. so in the example above i could not send email as orders@example.org or newsletters@example.org. I could only send email as bob@example.org. Is this still true or can you send email from aliases? I don't want it to look like it came from the primary email "orders@example.org in care of bob@example.org". The email i send with an alias should really look like it came from the alias. This is the only reason i'm on GApps and i'm hope to swtich back. Is this feature still missing?
thanks
189 Replies
I would say go for Shared Mialbox because you can access it independentaly, rather DL where you can only send and receive.
you can view shared mailbox in phones too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjlx9C2Bjlw
I have had a similar requirement and have tried both an Exchange Group and Shared Mailbox for the ability to receive and send emails using an alias. I prefer the Shared Mailbox as this is simpler to setup and use.Yup Brent as Leighton says you can use a distribution group for this. Set it up with the alias as its email, configure it with you as a member, and importantly with send-as permission for yourself. You can then sent emails using that From address. Inbound emails will be forwarded to your inbox.
We use Shared-mailboxes more, but the group sounds what you are looking for.
Hi Brent,
You can create an aditional POP or IMAP account in your Outlook to send with the aliases.
Is the best solution that I use and several clients, if you want to keep in the same Mailbox.
Doesn't this solution result in getting all emails for the mailbox twice on the client? That does not sound practical.
Hi Marando,
You can select just a few days on POP/IMAP, is just a way to send messages from other alias, it's not a perfect solution.
It works, and you can arrange the view on your Outlook, do these acconts to be on bottom of your stucture.
But be aware that shared mailboxes cannot be accessed from mobile apps (as a warkaround, from mobile you can use the Web UI, of course...).
- You can now access shared mailboxes from Outlook mobile app after logging into your main account which has access to the shared mailbox. Follow instructions in video to enable
- You can now just tick "Turn on sending from aliases" in the Exchange admin center. In Settings, Mail flow Settings.
Hey Salvatore, you can access shared email in mobile apps. the configuration of this is as follows:
- You can add your account as IMAP.
- SIn the Incoming Mail Server section, enter the following values:
- Host Name: outlook.office365.com
- User Name: Your personal email address, followed by a forward slash, followed by the name of the shared mailbox. For example, name@davidson.edu/shared
- Password: Your Davidson email password.
- Scroll down. In the Outgoing Mail Server section, enter the following values:
- Host Name: smtp.office365.com
- User Name: Your full Davidson email address.
- Password: Your Davidson email password.
This worked for me in an office 365 shared mailbox on an android device.
Cheers!
Agree with shared mailboxes. You can configure the mailboxes to forward email to your mailbox, and utilise Send As permissions to send from the alias of the shared mailbox.
- Instead of using aliases, use shared mailboxes (for instance) that will enable you with the right configuration to send as the shared mailbox alias...there are other options, but the shared mailbox is one of the most simple
Shared mailboxes do not support SMTP
- Really?
