Email Mailmerge - reply to different account

[Guest]

Hi Outlook Experts,

I am trying to create an email mailmerge (message coming from me) using an
excel source, but I want people to reply to one of my colleagues. My
colleague and I are both on a Microsoft Exchange Server in Outlook.

When setting up the merge in Word, there did not seem to be an option for
inserting a seperate Reply To field into the merged emails. I have tried to
change settings in Outlook, but apparently a temporary account setting change
is not possible when using Microsoft Exchange Server, and if I try to open a
new mail window and change the Reply To field there (which IS possible), this
change does not get picked up when I go back to Word and complete the merge.

Any suggestions?
Thank you,
Valerie

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Either create a profile using the other person's exchange credentials or set
up an imap account (pop will work too, but you should use a fake pop server
to eliminate the risk you'll download mail from the server).

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I don't think you'll be able to accomplish this in a mail merge. The alternative is to write code to create the messages using Outlook automation and add the address to the MailItem.ReplyRecipients collection on each message.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

Diane,

Thank you very much. I created an IMAP profile and successfully sent my
messages with a different Reply To.

Thanks!
Valerie