Entourage and .Mac aliases

[Andres Pinilla (Compudemano.com)]

I was wondering how people, who use aliases in .Mac, work with these in
Entourage. In Mail, you can just choose an aliase from a drop down box. In
Entourage, the only way I can think that you might be able to do this is to
create an account for each aliase using your master .Mac account name but
changing the return address to the aliase. However this would then give you,
if you had two aliase and one prime e-mail address 3 sets of the same
mailbox and I assume you'd be replicating the mail items across all these
mailboxes. Any suggestion or thought would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Michel Bintener]

Hi Andres,

you're right, Entourage doesn't handle this as gracefully as Mail.app does.
You are definitely going to need to set up three different accounts;
however, to avoid message duplication, make sure that only one of these
accounts is a "real" account. In other words, set up your main account the
way you usually would, i.e. fill in the details for the incoming and
outgoing servers and so on. As for the alias accounts, do *not* enter the
incoming server details, only the outgoing server details. That way, you do
not end up with three identical inboxes, but with only one inbox (your main
account) and three accounts to choose from when sending a message.

I was wondering how people, who use aliases in .Mac, work with these in
Entourage. In Mail, you can just choose an aliase from a drop down box. In
Entourage, the only way I can think that you might be able to do this is to
create an account for each aliase using your master .Mac account name but
changing the return address to the aliase. However this would then give you,
if you had two aliase and one prime e-mail address 3 sets of the same
mailbox and I assume you'd be replicating the mail items across all these
mailboxes. Any suggestion or thought would be greatly appreciated.

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

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