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rsine
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      13th Jul 2004
The company I work for owns several domain names for which email aliases
have been created. For example, a user may have a primary address of
(E-Mail Removed) and an alias of (E-Mail Removed). Our customers can send to
either the user's primary address or any of his or her aliases. My
question is, is there a plugin or can a plugin be created for Outlook to
fill in the FROM field when responding to an email based upon how the
email was received? Currently, no matter whether the email was sent to
(E-Mail Removed) or (E-Mail Removed), the response is always from the primary
address. I need to be able to decipher the address the email was sent
to and respond with the same address. I am relatively new to .Net
coding so any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

-Thanks



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Victor Ivanidze
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      14th Jul 2004
Take a look at ChooseFrom application here:
http://www.ivasoft.biz/choosefrom.shtml

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> The company I work for owns several domain names for which email aliases
> have been created. For example, a user may have a primary address of
> (E-Mail Removed) and an alias of (E-Mail Removed). Our customers can send to
> either the user's primary address or any of his or her aliases. My
> question is, is there a plugin or can a plugin be created for Outlook to
> fill in the FROM field when responding to an email based upon how the
> email was received? Currently, no matter whether the email was sent to
> (E-Mail Removed) or (E-Mail Removed), the response is always from the primary
> address. I need to be able to decipher the address the email was sent
> to and respond with the same address. I am relatively new to .Net
> coding so any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
>
> -Thanks
>
>
>
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      14th Jul 2004
Victor,

Thank you for your post. Unfortunately, our parent company runs our
exchange server and they are really protective of what gets installed.
That is why I am looking for a client side solution. Ideally, when our
users hit reply, code would execute that finds who the email was sent to
and places that address in the FROM field. Right now, the user has to
type the address they wish to be in the FROM field of the reply email.

Again thank you for your post.



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Victor Ivanidze
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      15th Jul 2004
There is no way to do that using client side software only.

Let's say you have a primary (default) SMTP address of (E-Mail Removed) and
secondary one of (E-Mail Removed). Certainly you can place (E-Mail Removed) to the
From field in Outlook, but Exchange server will send a message from
(E-Mail Removed), as that address is primary. So you can create and run any
application/code on client side to populate the From field, but it can not
help if you wish to send using non-default SMTP address.

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Victor Ivanidze,
software developer
www.ivasoft.biz



> Victor,
>
> Thank you for your post. Unfortunately, our parent company runs our
> exchange server and they are really protective of what gets installed.
> That is why I am looking for a client side solution. Ideally, when our
> users hit reply, code would execute that finds who the email was sent to
> and places that address in the FROM field. Right now, the user has to
> type the address they wish to be in the FROM field of the reply email.
>
> Again thank you for your post.
>
>
>
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      15th Jul 2004
Victor,

Are you saying the FROM field is meaningless in Outlook when it comes to
aliases because exchange will resolve the name to the primary address
before sending the message?


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