Changing the "From" name

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In Outlook XP,I have set up a hotmail account for my
closest contacts only.Is there a setting where I can
change the name in the FROM line in email sent out to my
real name instead of the name of my hotmail account.In
othr words,email comes from "Liza Q" instead
of "(e-mail address removed)"?
 
Bill C said:
In Outlook XP,I have set up a hotmail account for my
closest contacts only.Is there a setting where I can
change the name in the FROM line in email sent out to my
real name instead of the name of my hotmail account.In
othr words,email comes from "Liza Q" instead
of "(e-mail address removed)"?
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If you have defined an HTTP e-mail account for Hotmail, you are using
their webmail service to send your outbound e-mails. It doesn't matter
what you specify in the Name and E-mail Address fields in the HTTP
e-mail account defined inside Outlook. The e-mail address used will be
your Hotmail e-mail address because you are sending it through through
their webmail server that reads your profile. The same for your name.
If you want "Lisa Q" to go out as the From name in e-mails you send
using an HTTP e-mail account for Hotmail in Outlook, you will have to
use a browser to go to your Hotmail account and change your profile name
there.

If, instead, a POP3 e-mail account is defined for Hotmail then what you
put into the Name and E-Mail Address fields in the e-mail account in
Outlook is what gets put into the From field in the e-mail the recipient
gets. Hotmail quit providing POP3 and SMTP servers awhile ago. To make
Hotmail look like a POP3 service, use Hotmail Popper or some other local
HTTP-to-POP3 protocol converter proxy. Your POP3 e-mail client connects
to the POP3 side of the proxy and its HTTP side connects to your webmail
provider. Then you can do the same things with your POP3 Hotmail
account that you can do with other POP3 accounts, like use rules. I
have not used Hotmail Popper and cannot vouch for its usability and
stability. I have a Yahoo webmail account and use YahooPOPs to have
POP3 access to it (without having to pay Yahoo for their POP3 service).
 
Vanguard said:
If you have defined an HTTP e-mail account for Hotmail, you are using
their webmail service to send your outbound e-mails. It doesn't
matter what you specify in the Name and E-mail Address fields in the
HTTP e-mail account defined inside Outlook. The e-mail address used
will be your Hotmail e-mail address because you are sending it
through through their webmail server that reads your profile. The
same for your name. If you want "Lisa Q" to go out as the From name
in e-mails you send using an HTTP e-mail account for Hotmail in
Outlook, you will have to use a browser to go to your Hotmail account
and change your profile name there.

If, instead, a POP3 e-mail account is defined for Hotmail then what
you put into the Name and E-Mail Address fields in the e-mail account
in Outlook is what gets put into the From field in the e-mail the
recipient gets. Hotmail quit providing POP3 and SMTP servers awhile
ago. To make Hotmail look like a POP3 service, use Hotmail Popper or
some other local HTTP-to-POP3 protocol converter proxy. Your POP3
e-mail client connects to the POP3 side of the proxy and its HTTP
side connects to your webmail provider. Then you can do the same
things with your POP3 Hotmail account that you can do with other POP3
accounts, like use rules. I have not used Hotmail Popper and cannot
vouch for its usability and stability. I have a Yahoo webmail
account and use YahooPOPs to have POP3 access to it (without having
to pay Yahoo for their POP3 service).
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I might be wrong. A junk filter noticed that an e-mail address From me
(as a test e-mail) and moved it to the Junk folder so I didn't see it
delivered (and had to go onto other tasks). Try changing the Name field
in the HTTP Hotmail e-mail account defined in Outlook and see if that
name gets puts into the From field in the e-mail received by your
recipients.
 
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