If you want to receive emails from your secondary accounts, configure email forwarding to do so. This is necessary to make sure you got the rights on your main account to send emails using your other accounts and also to retrieve emails from them.

You can add email accounts here with a click on the 'Add a send-only account' or 'Add a send-and-receive account' on this page.

You find all Outlook aliases that you have added here as well, including if they are configured to send and receive, or only send email.

Click on the options icon next to your name in the upper right corner and selectÂ More mail settings from the options there.

If you want to receive and send emails using the secondary accounts, you need to set that up as well.

All aliases share a single password to sign in to your Microsoft Account (the password from the primary account, not to be confused with the password of the secondary email account).

You can have up to 10 aliases, that is the upper limit for Microsoft Accounts currently.

You can remove existing ones from the account or click on the add alias link to add a new one to it.

Here you find all current aliases listed.

Select Account Aliases from the menu on the right.

Click on your name in the upper right corner and select Account Settings from the options.

Visit the website and sign in if you are not already.

They can still be used to send and receive email on though, but they cannot be used for authentication anymore. The main difference is that they cannot be used to sign in to your Microsoft Account. While that sounds beneficial at first, it also means that all account information need to be kept up to date and protected at all costs, as they all open the doors to the account on the Internet.Įmail aliases on the other hand change the behavior.

So, instead of using the primary email address associated with the account, all linked accounts can also be used to sign in to What makes them special is that it is possible to use them to sign in to.

This usually means email addresses from other providers such as Gmail, Yahoo Mail or personal accounts. Linked accounts are third party email accounts that have been linked to the primary Microsoft account. The Microsoft Outlook team announced today that it made the decision to remove linked accounts on in favor of email aliases.

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