Windows 8.1 Mail, multiple email addresses, and default «from» field

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Are you trying to keep one particular email ID as default for the multiple email accounts that you have?

If yes, unfortunately that feature is not available within the Mail app.

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Have you ever thought of using an email program?

Each account would be setup and could have a separate display name and signature.

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This is a real pain in Windows 8.1 Mail. There is no way to change settings for default-account, in my case aol.com. I have used aol by Thunderbird for ages, and it has been quite easy. With Win 8.1 Mail it is impossible, because i cannot change settings.

My case is, that i have to use internetproviders own server to send messages, not aol-server. I have to manually change outgoing server to another, but in Win 8.1 it is impossible when account is default account. So i can get email, but cannot send from default account.

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View internet message headers in Outlook

An email message internet header provides a list of technical details about the message, such as who sent it, the software used to compose it, and the email servers that it passed through on its way to the recipient. Most of the time, only an administrator will need to view internet headers for a message. If you want to add a header to your email message, see Apply stationery, backgrounds, or themes to email messages.

Some senders use spoofing to disguise their email address. By checking the header, you can find out if the email address is different than it appears, and add it to your blocked senders list.

View message headers in Outlook on your desktop

Double-click an email message to open it outside of the Reading Pane.

Click File > Properties.

Header information appears in the Internet headers box.
Tip: You can highlight the information in that box, press Ctrl+C to copy, and paste it into Notepad or Word to see the entire header at once.

Consider an email exchange between two people, Anton Kirilov and Kelly J. Weadock. Anton’s email address is anton@proseware.com and Kelly’s address is kelly@litwareinc.com . Kelly uses Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. The Internet header associated with Kelly’s message to Anton looks as follows:

Note: The sample header might not contain all items found in your email headers. These are the most common entries.

When Kelly sends an email message to anton@proseware.com , she composes it from her computer, which is identified as ( i101-177.nv.litwareinc.com ). The composed text is passed from her computer to the email server, mail.litwareinc.com. This is the last that Kelly will see of her email message, because further processing is handled by email servers with no intervention from her. When Kelly’s email server receives the message for anton@proseware.com , it contacts Proseware’s email server and delivers the message to it. The message is stored on the proseware.com server until Anton checks his Proseware email messages.

The following is an explanation of the common email header fields.

This header is added by Outlook.

This information says that the message transfer occurred on Tuesday, December 12, 2017, at 13:39:22 (1:39:22 in the afternoon) Pacific Standard Time (which is 8 hours later than Coordinated Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time); thus the «–0800»).

This message transfer occurred on Tuesday, December 12, 2017, at 13:38:49 (1:38:49 in the afternoon) Pacific Standard Time (which is 8 hours later than Coordinated Universal Time (UTC); thus the «–0800»).

This message was sent by Kelly J. Weadock from the email address kelly@litware.com .

This is the person to whom the email message is addressed.

These are the person or persons who receive carbon copies of the message.

Note: Recipients of blind carbon copies (Bcc) do not appear in the header.

This is the subject of the email message.

This indicates the date and time that the email message was sent, based upon the computer clock on the sender’s computer.

This parameter specifies the version of the MIME protocol that was used by the sender.

This is an additional MIME header. It tells MIME-compliant email programs about the type of content to expect in the message.

This information indicates that the message was sent by using Microsoft Office Outlook with a build version of 12.0.4210.

This entry indicates the email software (MIME OLE software) used by the sender.

This header is used to associate multiple messages with a similar thread. For example, in Outlook, the conversation view uses this information to find messages from the same conversation thread.

This entry specifies how to reach the message sender.

The message has been assigned this number by mail.litware.com for identification purposes. This ID will always be associated with the message.

This is a time stamp placed on the message when it first passes through a server running Microsoft Exchange.

View message headers in Outlook on the web or Outlook.com

Select at the top of the message window and select View message source.

Find the sender’s address

Scroll down in the Message source until you find the From field.

Highlight the email address enclosed within and right-click to Copy.

Use this email address to block the sender. Read how to block or unblock senders.

Consider an email exchange between two people, Anton Kirilov and Kelly J. Weadock. Anton’s email address is anton@proseware.com and Kelly’s address is kelly@litwareinc.com . Kelly uses Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. The Internet header associated with Kelly’s message to Anton looks as follows:

Note: The sample header might not contain all items found in your email headers. These are the most common entries.

When Kelly sends an email message to anton@proseware.com , she composes it from her computer, which is identified as ( i101-177.nv.litwareinc.com ). The composed text is passed from her computer to the email server, mail.litwareinc.com. This is the last that Kelly will see of her email message, because further processing is handled by email servers with no intervention from her. When Kelly’s email server receives the message for anton@proseware.com , it contacts Proseware’s email server and delivers the message to it. The message is stored on the proseware.com server until Anton checks his Proseware email messages.

The following is an explanation of the common email header fields.

This header is added by Outlook.

This information says that the message transfer occurred on Tuesday, December 12, 2017, at 13:39:22 (1:39:22 in the afternoon) Pacific Standard Time (which is 8 hours later than Coordinated Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time); thus the «–0800»).

This message transfer occurred on Tuesday, December 12, 2017, at 13:38:49 (1:38:49 in the afternoon) Pacific Standard Time (which is 8 hours later than Coordinated Universal Time (UTC); thus the «–0800»).

This message was sent by Kelly J. Weadock from the email address kelly@litware.com .

This is the person to whom the email message is addressed.

These are the person or persons who receive carbon copies of the message.

Note: Recipients of blind carbon copies (Bcc) do not appear in the header.

This is the subject of the email message.

This indicates the date and time that the email message was sent, based upon the computer clock on the sender’s computer.

This parameter specifies the version of the MIME protocol that was used by the sender.

This is an additional MIME header. It tells MIME-compliant email programs about the type of content to expect in the message.

This information indicates that the message was sent by using Microsoft Office Outlook with a build version of 12.0.4210.

This entry indicates the email software (MIME OLE software) used by the sender.

This header is used to associate multiple messages with a similar thread. For example, in Outlook, the conversation view uses this information to find messages from the same conversation thread.

This entry specifies how to reach the message sender.

The message has been assigned this number by mail.litware.com for identification purposes. This ID will always be associated with the message.

This is a time stamp placed on the message when it first passes through a server running Microsoft Exchange.

How do I change the «From» Address in the Windows 10 Mail app?

I want to send an email via the Windows 10 Mail app as *** Email address is removed for privacy ***,

rather than sending it as *** Email address is removed for privacy *** or *** Email address is removed for privacy ***, but it won’t give me any options to do so.

I’ve searched around, but I’ve yet to find a solution. Am I missing something obvious?
Hope someone can help!

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Thank you for being a part of Windows 10.

I appreciate you for providing details about the issue and we are glad to assist you.

I suggest you configure the Mail app by adding the account of your choice and check if it helps.

Refer to the following Microsoft article on Set up Mail and add contacts.

Note: The steps for Windows 8.1 applies to Windows 10.

Reference: Refer to the following Microsoft article on Windows 10 help & how-to.

Kindly let us know if you need any further assistance with Windows. We are happy to assist you.

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(Sorry — didn’t realise the forums would censor my examples!)

I wish to send emails from an alias address, different than my Gmail or Microsoft accounts,

but I can’t figure out how to enter that new address into Windows 10 Mail’s «From» field.

The email address I want to use as an alias is forwarded, so I can’t set up POP or IMAP.

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Same Here. I actually created new ‘aliases’; but in Gmail which lets you set up several independent ‘addresses’ so W10-Mail can set them up as different ‘accounts’ within a linked inbox. Voila, 4 ‘aliases’ within my ‘inbox’ any of which can be selected when clicking ‘New Mail’. (An automatic dropdown to choose which account the mail is coming from.) — Obviously this will not work for people with established aliases. I was ‘fortunate’ I hadn’t been using aliases for long so there was little cost to the change. (And, hypothetically, any email to the old aliases should still get to my primary Outlook account.)

But that we have to jump through this many hoops to get W10-MS-Apps to work as well as W8-MS-Apps is utterly ridiculous. Their Mail-aliases backstep is only surpassed by their OneDrive Dis-Integration (where there are also inelegant inadequate change-how-you-work work-arounds), and their truly bizarre inability to cut-and-paste from/to Edge/Mail/etc.

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So I just recently decided to join the Win10 wagon and have finally finished setting up and synchronizing my accounts. Was also wondering where the drop-down button for account/aliases went. but after going through this thread, I suppose this issue with the Win10 Mail app has yet to be resolved?

I have a Gmail work account and an Outlook personal account, all managed through my Outlook account using the Win10 Mail app. Since Win8, I have set my work address as the primary From address (seeing as email traffic is heavier there) and had no trouble switching around, but this time with the Win10 Mail app I was unable to locate that drop-down button and I find this to be unnecessarily frustrating as I am therefore required to go and open my account via browser just so I could switch From addresses. This problem is also ever present within the Win10 Phone Mail app, sigh.

Any idea on whether or not Microsoft is doing anything about this? Or is the Win10 Mail app meant to be mega basic as opposed to the Ms Outlook 2016 program? I mean, the Win10 Mail app goes as far as allowing you to play around with text format and everything (except for formatting your signature, which. c’mon now?), so I suppose Microsoft should also give us that drop-down button back.