redshoes said:
In the first instance, I have already re directed mail to a different
account. It is another outlook account that doesn't run from our
server. I
don't know what type of account that is I'm afraid.
What I need to do is reply to these redirected mails so it looks to my
recipient that I am replying from the original account.
Does that make it any clearer? (sincere apologies, I'm not good with
this
technical stuff)
Outlook doesn't have accounts. It has account definitions. The
accounts are services provided by someone running a mail server. Your
Outlook account definition(s) identify the mail server so you can tell
to whom you connect and what type is the connection (POP3, IMAP,
Exchange). Nothing technical here other than just looking.
In the account definition within Outlook, put whatever you want in the
following fields:
- Your Name: This is the comment portion of the From header.
- E-mail Address: This is the e-mail address shown in the From header.
- Reply E-mail: If blank, replies go to the e-mail address in your From
header. If non-blank, it can be the same or different than your From
e-mail address.
In your case, set the Your Name and E-mail Address fields in the account
definition to be the same as for your originating account (the one that
you are forwarding from). These define the From header that your
recipient will see. You can leave the Reply E-mail field blank or make
it the same as your From's e-mail address.
If you are connecting to an Exchange server, all of these fields can be
ignored. It is unlikely that a company wants their employees spoofing
the origination of any e-mails sent using the company's resources. So
you can configure Outlook to look like anyone else or somewhere else but
the Exchange server will not use any of that information and instead use
the employee information recorded for your Exchange mailbox. The above
(where you spoof your account by specifying info in the From header that
differs than for the actual account you use to send from) only applies
when using a POP3 or IMAP service for e-mail (and who also doesn't
override the headers inserted by your e-mail client).
Your recipients can still interrogate the Received headers to see from
where your e-mail originated. You might be receiving e-mails at
(e-mail address removed) which forwards to your
(e-mail address removed) and then send replies from that second account
which pretends to be from your first account but your recipients will
see in the Received headers that your reply actually came from domainB.
Sending to one account but receiving replies from a different account
may be cause for your recipients not to trust your e-mails. They know
to whom they sent their message. Now someone else using a different
account but pretending to be the original account is replying to their
message. Hiding ups the suspicion factor. If the second "personal"
account is for remote access, like from home, to your work e-mail
account, look into using VPN or Outlook Web Acess so your work-related
replies originated from your work's domain.
