Normally a mailmerge is performed with your own email address. To get a different from address in the merged mails, you have to perform the following steps:
- Go to tools, email accounts, click add a new account and click next
- Select IMAP as the server type, and click next
- In User information fill in the name and email address that the recipients will see in the ‘from:’ field
- In Logon information fill in the user name and password for the Exchange account that you will be using for the mailmerge
- In Server Information fill in your’re exhange servername for both fields
- Now click ‘More Settings’, and go to the tab Outgoing Server. Check the ‘My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication’ box, and click ‘ok’.
- Now click next on the ‘internet e-mail settings (IMAP) screen.
- Click finish.
- Ignore any errors about IMAP not being able to connect.
- Go back to tools, email accounts, but leave the default (view or change existing e-mail accounts) on and click next.
- Select your newly added exchange IMAP/SMTP account, and click ‘Set as default’
- Perform the mailmerge
- When the mailmerge is done, be sure to set the default back to the original value of ‘Microsoft Exchange Server Exchange’