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mrmeister

macrumors regular
Original poster
May 26, 2010
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Hi,

I have multiple accounts setup in mail, and one of them is an @mydomain.com for a hosted website. Because there a lot of limitations with space for hosted email accounts, i have also setup a gmail (mydomain@gmail.com) to periodically collect all of the mail from the hosted account, thereby keeping the account clear.

What i want to do in Mail is to automatically have ALL outgoing mail for both accounts send from the @mydomain.com address. Obviously this works for the hosted account, but not for the gmail account - i would have to use the drop down menu to change the address and because i'm human, i sometimes forget to do that...

I thought that changing the outgoing mail server of the gmail account to the same as the hosted account would work, but apparently not - in testing it still said the mail was received from gmail...

Does anyone know if this is possible?
Thanks for your help!
 

FreakinEurekan

macrumors 603
Sep 8, 2011
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You can set the reply-to on a message-by-message basis by turning on the reply-to field with View > Reply To Address Field.

There's no UI method to make that automatic, but this article describes a terminal method. I've not tried it so don't know if it works with Mavericks.
 

gc916

macrumors regular
Apr 23, 2012
157
0
I think you can control the default account for outgoing mail in Mail>Preferences>Composing. Under Addressing, select Send New Messages From and choose the desired @mydomain.com address.
 

FreakinEurekan

macrumors 603
Sep 8, 2011
5,524
2,584
I think you can control the default account for outgoing mail in Mail>Preferences>Composing. Under Addressing, select Send New Messages From and choose the desired @mydomain.com address.

That affects new messages, but replies default to using the account that the original message came in to.
 
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