Adding an alias email address in Outlook

Do you want to use more than one email address with your Outlook account? You can do this by adding an Outlook alias. In this article, we’ll show you how to add an Outlook alias and everything you need to know about it.

What is an email alias?

An email alias lets you send and receive emails using a different address from your main email account.

Say, for example, your main email address is “[email protected]” you could add “[email protected]” as an alias which allows you to send and receive emails to this address without having to do it from another mailbox.

Why use an Outlook email Alias?

Creating additional email addresses can be very helpful for many reasons. For example:

• If you’re a small business that wants to create different emails for different uses, you could set up one email for email marketing, another for accounts, and another for general conversations.
• If you want to separate life and work, you could check both your personal and business email from the same Outlook account.
• If you want to enhance your security, using an alias to sign up for websites you don’t trust is a great way to protect yourself from spam and enhance security.

How to add an Alias in Outlook

1. On your desktop, navigate to the gear icon at the top right of your Outlook inbox.
2. Select Email settings → Sync email.
3. Click Manage or choose the primary alias
4. From the pop-up window, select An alternative email address.

How to send emails from an Alias?

After setting up your alias, you can choose it as the ‘From’ address when writing an email. All replies will still come to your main Outlook account.

How to change your default sending email

If you want to make your Outlook alias the default email address you send mail from, follow the following steps.

1. On your desktop, navigate to the gear icon at the top right of your Outlook inbox.
2. Select Email settings → Sync email.
3. Navigate to Email aliases
4. Under Set default from address select an email from the drop-down menu.

Limitations of emails you can use as an alias in Outlook

You can add aliases from any domain (like @gmail.com, @yourdomain.com) create a new Outlook.com email address, and add it as an alias.

However, you can’t use a work or school email as an alias. Nor can you use existing Hotmail, Live, Outlook.com, and MSN addresses. Or an alias that is already associated with another Microsoft account.

Note: While do our best to make sure our content is up to date and correct, if you are having issues setting up your alias, please refer to the Microsoft documentation on aliases.

How to remove an Alias from Outlook

You can remove an Outlook Alias by following the steps below. But you should know that if you remove an alias that’s an email address from a Microsoft domain (like @hotmail.com, @live.com, @outlook.com, or @msn.com), you’ll permanently delete this alias and it can’t be associated with any Microsoft account again.

1. On your desktop, navigate to the gear icon at the top right of your Outlook inbox.
2. Select Email settings → Sync email.
3. Navigate to Email aliases
4. Select Remove next to the alias you no longer want.

Looking to send sales and marketing emails with an Outlook account?

If you’re creating a new alias with the plan to send mass emails from your Outlook account, you should check out Mailmeteor for Outlook.

With over 6 million users worldwide, Mailmeteor lets you send personalized mass emails to 1,000s of people from your Outlook account. Allowing you to track your results in real-time and send automatic follow-ups based on recipient activity to get more replies.

To get started with Mailmeteor, you can log in with your Outlook account here.

Once you’re in the dashboard, you’ll be able to create a new email campaign with automatic follow-ups, and email tracking, and personalize each of the emails to your recipients — and choose your Outlook Alias for sending to protect your main email address.

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