Multiple addresses at the same domain in Entourage?

November 8, 2006 8:28 PM

In OS X mail.app, it is possible to configure an email account and associate it with multiple email addresses by separating the addresses with a comma in the preference pane. This is useful if you have multiple addresses at the same domain because it allows you to reply to mail and send new messages using the address you choose without having to configure two accounts.

Is something similar possible in Entourage? I am trying to achieve the same functionality for someone who needs to use Entourage for other reasons and am hitting a wall. Any help is most appreciated. (example inside)

Example:

You have two addresses:

[e-mail]
[e-mail]

Since they deliver to the same mailbox, by setting up the account once and having this functionality you can do away with the reply to field when responding to a message sent to the 'secondary' address and when you want to send a new message you just choose what account it comes from.

posted by bcnarc to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

You should be able to set up a group address for that person via Address Book. See Address Book Help topic "Creating a group of contacts" (type "group" in search window). Then you can use that group address for that person via OS X Mail. I can't help you with Entourage since I don't have it installed - there should be a similar capability by creating a distribution address group.
posted by plokent at 9:12 PM on November 8, 2006

That is not the same thing. I'm talking about being able to choose which address your message comes from without having to configure the account twice in entourage using a different address each time. In Mail.app you can choose your 'sent from' address on a message by message basis, entourage seems to do it by account.
posted by bcnarc at 9:40 PM on November 8, 2006

choose which address your message comes from without having to configure the account twice in entourage using a different address each time

Yeah, that's the way you have to do it. Of course, you can exclude the second account from the Send & Receive All schedule, so it's only used for sending.
posted by kindall at 12:40 AM on November 9, 2006