Using alias address

[Vince]

We use an exchange server at work for e-mail. I have set up an alias
that I use for receiving mail but I wanted to use the alias for sending
all the mail as well. I was told that it cannot be done in exchange but
I can use a POP server.
So I set up the alias to use the POP and made it my default account.
But it still continues to use the exchange serever account on outgoing
mail. Incoming mail is working fine for both the accounts. Isnt there a
way I can use the alias to send the e-mail as well?
I can change the outgoing accont/address for each message but by default
it picks up the exchange account. Is there a way to make it pick up the
POP account as a deaafult outgoing address?

 

[Vince]

We use an exchange server at work for e-mail. I have set up an alias
that I use for receiving mail but I wanted to use the alias for sending
all the mail as well. I was told that it cannot be done in exchange but
I can use a POP server.
So I set up the alias to use the POP and made it my default account. But
it still continues to use the exchange serever account on outgoing mail.
Incoming mail is working fine for both the accounts. Isnt there a way I
can use the alias to send the e-mail as well?
I can change the outgoing accont/address for each message but by default
it picks up the exchange account. Is there a way to make it pick up the
POP account as a deaafult outgoing address?

I just noticed that when I send a new message it goes out with the alias
address and receiver can reply to that message. But any incoming message
that I reply to, irrspective of the address it came on, picks up the
address from exchange server by default and not the alias addrss.

 

[Brian Tillman]

We use an exchange server at work for e-mail. I have set up an alias
that I use for receiving mail but I wanted to use the alias for
sending all the mail as well. I was told that it cannot be done in
exchange but I can use a POP server.

I don't believe that's always true. For example, I have several accounts in
Outlook where I work, all within the same profile. Only one of those
accounts, the Exchange account, uses my work address. The others are POP
accounts that use the Exchange server for outgoing mail and each of them
uses addresses that are fake. They don't exist and point to a domain other
than my work domain. Out Exchange server has no trouble whatsoever relaying
those messages, even though they appear to come from addresses outside of
the domain the Exchange server handles. It has been configured to simply
not care.

 

[Vince]

I don't believe that's always true. For example, I have several accounts in
Outlook where I work, all within the same profile. Only one of those
accounts, the Exchange account, uses my work address. The others are POP
accounts that use the Exchange server for outgoing mail and each of them
uses addresses that are fake. They don't exist and point to a domain other
than my work domain. Out Exchange server has no trouble whatsoever relaying
those messages, even though they appear to come from addresses outside of
the domain the Exchange server handles. It has been configured to simply
not care.

Thank you Brian. Can you let me know how the server is configured to
send messages from a POP alias? I can receive messages addressed to
alias or even send new messages, but when I 'reply' it defaults to the
exchange address. I would like to set it up so that when I reply it wil
pick up the address the message orginally was addressd to.
Thank you.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Thank you Brian. Can you let me know how the server is configured to
send messages from a POP alias?

I just added a POP account with the address I want and for the outgoing
server, I use the Exchange server's POP interface. I have no experience
with Exchange configuration, but you can enable it for POP access as well as
IMAP and MAPI (the usual type) access.

I can receive messages addressed to
alias or even send new messages, but when I 'reply' it defaults to the
exchange address. I would like to set it up so that when I reply it
wil pick up the address the message orginally was addressd to.

With OL 2002/2003, at least, Outlook will reply using the account to which
the message was sent. However, you can always force the account by clicking
the Accounts button just to the right of Send in the Compose window, which
is what I do, since I never _get_ mail using the POP account. I only send
mail from those accounts. It all goes through the Exchange server, though.