Support for aliased From field?

[Mister Scary]

I'm using fastmail, which is an IMAP service provider, and have set up a few
aliases for receiving mail. The problem is that if I reply to any message,
the From field is always my main, non-aliased address which is causing some
confusion amongst recipients. Will Outlook 2007 allow me to choose an alias
when I reply or send email? My current desktop client is Windows Live Mail.

I have tried Thunderbird, it does support aliases the way I want but its
newsreader is terrible.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You can configure additional accounts in Outlook which you can set to send
only.

Note that Outlook doesn't have newsgroup support at all.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

No, outlook does not support automatic sending from the alias account -
you'd need to choose the sending acct each time.

FWIW, you can use t-bird for mail and live mail for news - even if you'd
switch to outlook, you'd still need to use two programs for reading mail and
news. I'm pretty sure I checked to see if Live Mail supports /newsonly
switch and it did, if you dislike seeing the mail section in LM.

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[VanguardLH]

I'm using fastmail, which is an IMAP service provider, and have set up a few
aliases for receiving mail. The problem is that if I reply to any message,
the From field is always my main, non-aliased address which is causing some
confusion amongst recipients. Will Outlook 2007 allow me to choose an alias
when I reply or send email? My current desktop client is Windows Live Mail.

I have tried Thunderbird, it does support aliases the way I want but its
newsreader is terrible.

If you want true aliasing (instead of just forwarding), look at
sneakemail.com. E-mails that come through that alias are setup in the
headers so your replies will also go back through that alias. Your
reply goes back to the alias account, not to the sender directly. The
result is that the headers from your e-mail provider are stripped from
your message when your reply goes back through the alias account. The
sender that gets a reply will see its headers point at your alias
account, not back to your e-mail provider's SMTP mail host. You can
define new aliases at your sneakemail.com whenever you want them,
organize them into folder hierarchies, disable them (if you want to
reuse them later) or delete them, change to which real e-mail address
they redirect received e-mails, etc. Their free service does have
quotas but they should be high enough for personal use (150KB max
message size, 10MB/month). Aliases should be used to contact unknown or
untrusted sources and not for long-term, high-volume e-mail traffic.

Aliases aren't included in the freebie Fastmail.fm account, so you are
using one of their paid plans to have aliasing. Would seem what you
want are actual accounts to receive e-mails and that you could define in
Outlook to use, even if they are temporary or disposable accounts.