Create an Outlook Alias Email Address

In the Outlook desktop program, you can add other email accounts to use as aliases. If you’ve already added an email to Outlook, using that account as an alias is simple, or you can create a new email alias within the program when you need it.

Create an Outlook.com Alias Email Address

In Outlook.com, an alias can be an email address you use to respond to people with a different email address from the same account. For example, if you have an Outlook.com email address for work, set up an alias for personal email. If you changed your name and want to use it with your existing account, set up an alias to keep your contacts and archived email. Microsoft permits users to have up to 10 aliases on their accounts at any given time, and you can use any of them to work in Outlook.com. To set up a new Microsoft alias email address you can use with your Outlook.com mail account: Your primary Outlook.com email address is the one you use to open your Microsoft account. You can sign in to your account with any of your aliases.

About Microsoft Aliases

All of your Microsoft aliases share the same Outlook.com inbox, contact list, password, and account settings as your primary alias, although some of this can be changed. You can opt to turn off the sign-in privileges of an alias you hand out to strangers to protect your information. Other notes:

You cannot use an existing @hotmail.com, @live.com, or @msn.com address as an alias.You can use an alias that is already associated with another Microsoft account.You can change the primary alias for an account at any time.

Remove an Alias from Outlook.com

To remove an alias from your account:  Removing an alias does not prevent it from being used again. To delete an alias, you have to close your Microsoft account, which means you lose access to your inbox. The conditions surrounding the reuse of an alias vary as follows:

If the alias you remove was an email address from a non-Microsoft domain (such as @gmail.com), it is available to be added as an alias on another Microsoft account immediately.If the alias you remove is an email address from Outlook.com, it can be recreated as a new account or alias after a 30-day waiting period.Email addresses from @hotmail.com, @live.com, or @msn.com cannot be added again as an alias to any Microsoft account after they are removed.