Alias email address in a 365 account

[JCee]

Hi everyone

I know I haven't engaged much with PH but have been a lurker for many years and have gained a lot of information from the knowledge of people in the forums and would be so grateful for any answers...

Is it possible to have the same alias email address assigned to two different primary email addresses?

For context I currenty have two email addresses [e-mail] and [e-mail], this is a company I'm employed by.

The primary and alias addresses have been set up by my current company, however the contract for the works we provide will transfer to a new company soon. My current company never delete accounts, they only disable them and are Cyber Security Essentials+ accredited if it makes any difference.

Will this prevent the incoming company from using the [e-mail] to assign to my new company primary address i.e. is the alias address assigned forever in the internet world to the original company?

Sorry for what may be a stupid question, but hey I am a bit stupid!

[markiii]

Short answer it wont work

Definitely can't be an alias I 2 places at the same time.

Not even sure it can be moved if removed as an alias on the first

Edited by markiii on Friday 27th January 12:22

[JCee]

Thanks Mark

Appreciate the reply

[bitchstewie]

I've read that a few times and I'm a bit confused how many mailboxes are involved v email addresses assigned to each mailbox but you can only have an email alias assigned to one "thing".

You could probably do something with forwarding but if you need to send as that alias your options reduce massively.

Devil's in the detail.

[JCee]

Hi bhstewie

I'll try to explain a bit better!

I currently work for company on a contract providng services on behalf of another organisation. The contract is coming to an end and will taken over by a new company who I will be TUPE'd across to.

Currently I have one mailbox with two email addresses [e-mail] and [e-mail] as an alias.

My poorly worded question was will it be possible to assign [e-mail] as an alias to my new employers mailbox i.e. [e-mail] or does it stay linked to the original mailbox ([e-mail]) for ever if the company only ever disables email acounts and never deletes them?

Hope that makes a bit more sense - I did say I was a bit stupid

[bitchstewie]

OK so the workingwithorganisation.com domain will be registered to someone (sounds like that's probably your current employer).

Whoever it's registered to controls where mail sent to [e-mail] goes to and right now it sounds like it goes to your current employers Office 365 environment.

So there's a bit of a mix between technical and business/politics that starts with who owns and controls the workingwithorganisation.com domain as they decide where mail for [e-mail] goes to.

That's before you get into the specifics of where mail to [e-mail] goes to.

[JCee]

Many thanks for the detailed reply, much appreciated.

Looks like I need to address the business/politics issue first!

[buggalugs]

The domain needs removing from one 365 tenant before you can add it to a different one. DNS settings remain same usually. However transferring your domain around to different clients as a sub contractor is not usually done and a recipie for ball ache. Just have your own domain and 365 tenant and maybe an account on the clients system if necessary.