Change the "From" address from within Outlook

[irbk]

Here is the situation. My company has been aquired by another company. While we are in this "transition" period, some users will want to use the @old_domain.com address some of the time and the @new_domain.com other times. I've gone through and set everything up so that the MX records and all are correct and I can recieve e-mail sent to either me@old_domain.com or me@new_domain.com. The issue is when I send, I can't seem to figure out if there is a way to change the address I'm sending from. I can go to the exchange server itself and change the primary address for a user, which will change the domain name they are sending from, but I wonder if there is a way to do it within Outlook. Is there a way within Outlook 2003 to change which domain name your sending from? If I just try putting "me@new_domain.com" in the "from" I get back a "system administrator: undeliverable" error saying that I don't have permission to send.

Thanks in advance!

 

[58sniper]

Asked and answered here previously. Please search.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

 

[irbk]

Oh, I'm sorry, I searched but didn't find anything. I'll try searching again.

 

[irbk]

Ok, I'm getting results when I search (obviously) but I'm not finding this situation. I know you've helped out with these in the past 58sniper, perhaps you have a better search string and could supply me with a link or two? Thanks.

 

[irbk]

Note that I'm not questioning the putting "me@new_domain.com" in the "from" and getting back a "system administrator: undeliverable" error saying that I don't have permission to send. I can send as either me@old_domain.com or me@new_domain.com as long as I set the address as the primary address within exchange. So I guess the actuall question should be, if you have multiple addresses within Exchange 2003, can you send from an address that is not set as your primary?

 

[58sniper]

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Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

 

[irbk]

Ok, so the short answer seems to be you can't send from an address that is not your primary address within Exchange without resorting to a 3rd party program or a Pop3 account.

That's what I needed to know. Thanks.

 

[Zelandakh]

Yes, that is correct.