I have a Hotmail account that I use in (desktop) Outlook 2016. As well as the primary address it has several aliases and all except one of these aliases can be selected with the From
button on new emails as the sender address. The most recent alias (which, if it matters, is an @outlook.com address) is not showing here, although I can type it in manually and mail is successfully sent.
I don't recall having done anything to get the other aliases to show up and I can't find anything that will add it to the list. How do I do this?
I've restarted Outlook (and the computer) several times and looked through the Account and general Outlook options, all to no avail, as well as sending from the address by manually entering it, as I said.
EDIT
According to howto-outlook.com, the alias should show up automatically in Outlook 2016's From
drop-down: see How can I choose which alias to send out with?
-> Method 3: From field (Outlook.com)
. If I was using an earlier version of Outlook, it should show up once I'd used it manually. As neither is working, there must be a bug somewhere and so I suppose this question becomes, "Is there a workaround?", i.e. something to kickstart an update or force a recreation of the "From" list.
I suspect an answer may be remove the account and reload it. Theoretically this should be pain free, but if anyone can suggest a potentially less destructive option, I'd like to hear it first!