Sunday, 9 February 2014

Create an alias in Outlook.com

Microsoft’s Outlook.com is not anyplace close to as tweakable as Gmail, however one great point Outlook.com will supply is email aliases—multiple, freelance email addresses happiness to one account.

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How to create an alias in Outlook.com

From the Outlook.com inbox, click on the settings cog in the upper right corner and click on More mail settings in the drop down menu.

On the next page, under Managing your account, click on Create an Outlook alias. For security reasons, Microsoft will ask you to sign in to your account again.

Next you’ll be on the alias creation page. Just enter the name of the email address you’d like to use, select whether you’d like the address to be Outlook.com, Hotmail.com, or Live.com, and then click Create an alias. (You probably stand a better chance of getting the address you want with the newer Outlook.com domain.)

If the address you want isn’t taken, Outlook will take you back to your inbox. You can then choose to have mail from your new alias delivered straight to your inbox or to a separate folder. Once you’ve decided which you prefer, click Done.

A few minutes later, Outlook will drop you an email message telling you that you’re alias is ready for use.
Once your alias is up and running, you can use it to sign in to your Microsoft account using the same password you always have. You can also use aliases to replace your current Hotmail or Live.com address as the primary identity for your Microsoft account. So instead of automatically signing into your Windows 8 PC or Xbox Live with johnapplemissed@hotmail.com, you can use johnapplemissed@outlook.com.

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