When you have more than one email account to access; you can configure them in your MS Outlook client application. This requires you to configure your accounts in Outlook. We have this step-by-step guide for you to learn and configure multiple accounts with MS Outlook. For this guide, we have used A as email account 1 and B for email account 2.
Steps to configure multiple email accounts in MS Outlook Client
- In the first step, start Outlook with a profile that is already configured for the Exchange Server mailbox for the account B. You may have to log on to the network as the user of account B for proper validation
- Here, from the Files menu, click on Info
- Click on Account Settings, and then click on Delegate Access option here
- On the Delegates tab, you need to click on Add button
- You need to type or select the name for the user of account A, click on Add, and then click on OK button
- In all lists, click to select Editor from the Delegate Permissions dialog box
- Now, you need to click on OK twice
- From the Navigation Pane, you need to click on Folder List in Outlook 2010, or Folders in Outlook 2013 or 2016 according to your version
- Now, right-click your E-mail address from the top of the given Folder List, and then click on Folder Permissions option
- And, click on Add button
- Here, you need to type or select the name for the user of account A, click on Add, and then click on OK button
- Now, in the Name box, click the newly added entry for the account A
- From the Permission Level box, click on Owner, and then click on OK button
- After that, quit from Outlook application
- Now, you need to restart Windows, and then log on as the user of account A
- After that, start Outlook with a profile that is configured for the Exchange Server mailbox for account A
- Here, from the Files menu, click on Info
- Then, go to Account Settings, and then click on it
- Now, from the E-mail tab, click on the name of the account, and then click on the Change icon
- Then, you need to click on the More Settings button
- You will find the Advanced tab here, click on it
- After that, click on Add button to add an account
- Now, type the name for the user of account B, and then click on OK twice
- The final step is to click on the Next button, then click on Finish, and finally click on Close button
- You have successfully configured multiple accounts with MS Outlook
Once you are done; simply test this by sending a test mail to any of your accounts.
