Exchange and Outlook - Multiple Addresses

I just setup Exchange in my office for the first time and realized that Outlook will only allow you to send email from one address. I can recieve from an unlimited amount but only the primary address can be used to send. Weird huh? Microsoft says they are addressing this in their next version of Outlook when ever that is.

What are some solutions that people are using to send from multiple addresses?

Thanks!

 

Mozilla Thunderbird is way ahead I think. Their spamfilter is quite good and lots of other features as well. And you can send from any adress you have configured.

 

Outlook out of the box allows for you to send from multiple addreses if they are POP3 or IMAP addresses. The problem arises if you add the MS mail server, Exchange, into the mix.

The way Exchange works is that you have one mailbox per Active Directory username and then "virtual" SMTP maps your addresses to to this one box. It is actually really (god am I giving MS a compliment?) organized and quite crafty.

The issue is that you can only have one "From", one "Reply to", and one "Reply as" addresses if you are using Exchange because Outlook only allows for one Exchange account to be configured.

The (half assed) work around -

Configure your additional addresses as POP3. Use giberish as your incoming mail server, use your exchange server as your SMTP server, then set SMTP authentication to "domain\username" so you can send mail.

While this does allow for you to now choose which account you are sending from, you will recieve an error everytime you check your mail whch really does suck.

I hope this helps someone!

 

Greetings from Denmark!

Bconnelly: Indeed your post helped someone, namely me.
Thanks to bconnelly and Google for pointing me in the direction.

Just one addition; The last part you mention:

Can be fixed like so: (Tested in Outlook 2003)
Tools -> Options... -> Mail setup -> Send/Recieve... -> Edit... (on All Accounts):
Uncheck the check-box for "Recieve mail items" for the correct email-account (selected on the left).

This will give you a send-only account, that won't pop-up, since there's no POP3 error any longer.

Cheers!

 

I have this same problem with multiple email addresses and as a short term rig I just had them all forwarded to my yahoo mail then I would log in and respond to them on my websites webmail. This was a slow and ineffecient process. I found that yahoo will allow you to receive up to one other email address to your yahoo if you have the pay email account. It works great and when you respond it is from the address you want it to come from. I have tried thunderbird but haven't got it to work for me. I have even tried thunderbird to access my pop3 yahoo email and that didn't work. I love Mozilla but this product is pissing me off

 

IvaSoft.biz has programs that allow you to send from multiple email addresses in an Outlook/Exchange environment. ChooseFrom goes on the Exchange Server and SmartReply goes on the OL client. Work great, I've used them for years now.