So, right now I have about five e-mail addresses that are all forwarded and coordinated through one inbox. My school has recently hired me on in a capacity where I’m required to do a lot of correspondence from their official e-mail address. That address, however, is just a dummy account that forwards to another inbox. How can I make said dummy account the one that people see and reply to in Outlook Express? For various reasons, I’d like them to only see this account, rather than my home e-mail address it’s being forwarded to.
Is this even possible in outlook, for that matter? Thanks in advance.
Does the school have it set up as a real email address, or do they just forward it to your home address? If the school’s server is forwarding it to your home address, it’s not an outlook issue. You’d have to have them set it up as a real email address. If they set it up as a real email address and you have Outlook checking the school server to retrieve the email and Outlook is forwarding it to your home address, that’s different. If that’s the case, when you send an email, just change the drop down box to choose the account you want to be sending from.
Does that sort of make sense?
I guess what I need is some clarification of the line “So, right now I have about five e-mail addresses that are all forwarded and coordinated through one inbox”
Who is forwarding these all to one inbox, and, (I know this sounds like an insult, but it’s an important question)…Are you sure you are using the word “forward” correctly?
Do you have five separate email accounts, that are all setup to receive email, and then re-email them (forward) to another account? OR, do you just have outlook polling five separate email accounts and dumping them all into one inbox (not forwarding)?
I have my ISP account that opens in outlook express. Forwarded to this e-mail address are:
-Stuff from my homepage’s domain
-Stuff from my school account
-Stuff from my Old ISP
-Etc. etc.
So, a whole mess of different e-mail accounts forward here. My school acount being one of them. Now, they have given me a new dummy account as a “Teacher Mentor” to use in official correspondence with faculty and TAs. This dummy account forwards to my regular university account, which in turn forwards to my ISP account so I can open it up on my blackberry and OE.
Presuming that I don’t respond to anyone using my blackberry, is it possible to make it so that anyone whom I write to sees “Dummyforwardingaccount@myschool.ca” as my e-mail address, and will write to this account should they click on the ‘reply’ button?
In that case, no, you can’t. You need to talk to whomever set up the dummy account. They set up dummyforwardingaccont as an alias for your regular school account. You need to have them set it up as a regular pop3 (I assume) account. Set it up in OE and/or your blackberry the same way you set up your school account (user name/password/port numbers/incoming server/outgoing server all that stuff) then you can email from it.
Also, just to be clear, assuming I understand this, you are running ONE email account on OE (and the BB), once you set this up, you’ll be running TWO email accounts. If that bugs you, you could still forward all your dummyaccount email to you main email, but since you’ll have to have the account on OE anyways in order to send email, you might as well receive it there as well.
Yeah, that sounds too complicated. I’ll just leave my “official” e-mail address in the signature and keep doing what I’m doing. Thanks for your help, just the same!