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How to send emails with alias in Outlook?

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Have you even received email messages that show senders’ names before email addresses? See screen shot below. Normally it only shows senders’ email addresses at the message header. Here I will introduce a way to send your email messages with alias, so that recipients can view your alias at the message header in Microsoft Outlook.

email messages with alias


To send your email messages with alias in Microsoft Outlook, please follow these steps below: 

Step 1: Open the Account Settings dialog box:

  1. In Outlook 2007, please click "Tools" > "Account Settings";
  2. In Outlook 2010 and 2013, please click "File" > "Info" > "Account Settings" > "Account Settings".

Step 2: In the Account Settings dialog box, go to the "Email" tab, select the email account which you will sent emails with alias, and click the "Change" button. See screen shot:

the Account Settings dialog box

Step 3: Now you get into the Change Account dialog box, and clear the original content in the "Your Name" box, and enter your alias in it.

the Change Account dialog box

Step 4: This step will show the selected email account as your alias when sending emails.

(1) Click the "More Settings" button in the Change Account dialog box.

(2) In the Internet E-mail Settings dialog box, clear original content in the first box, and then enter your alias in it. See screen shot below.

(3) Click the "OK" button to exit the Internet E-mail Settings dialog box.

the Internet E-mail Settings dialog box

Step 5: Now you get back to the Change Account dialog box, please uncheck the option of "Automatically test Account Settings when Next is clicked", then click the "Next" button and "Finish" button separately at the bottom of Change Account dialog box.

After configuring the account settings, you will view the specified email account shows as your alias when sending emails. See screen shot below.

the specified email account shown as your alias

What’s more, if you send email messages with this configured email account, your recipients will view your alias before your email address at the message header. See screen shot.

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