Mail - reply using alternate mail address

I don't think I understand you. When you create a new message or reply to a message in Mail, do you NOT have the Account dropdown located in between the header and the body of the message, from which you can choose the account you want the mail sent from (from all the accounts you have set up in the program), or is this somehow not addressing your needs? Do you mean you want to send from an account that Mail doesn't know about?

 

Duff-Man says....I think I understand the problem. Mail.app does not let you set up multiple accounts using the same .Mac host name. The only way that I know of is to go into Mails prefs and change the return address whenever you want to reply and have that other alias show as your address. Bit of a pain isn't it? Maybe that will get fixed in 10.4's mail.app as the whole .mac alias thing didn't exist when 10.3 first came out.....oh yeah!

 

selectable multiple "From" aliases

Open Mail.app -> Preferences -> Accounts -> Choose your account -> in the "Email Address" data entry field, add your aliases, separated by a comma. Save your account.

You can even create faux accounts for this purpose. I had to do that for my .Mac aliases, because the "Email Address" data entry field is not active (it's grayed out) on my default .Mac account name email address.

Now, when you compose a new email, your aliases will be in the "Account:" drop-down menu.

 

Do not make it as a .mac account type. Use it as a IMAP account type and then type in the email addresses seperated by commas.

If you want to attach names to them (i.e. johnq@mac.com to show up as John Q) create an address book entry for them.

 

Duff-Man says...hey, that works great (I have my .mac set as a pop3 account)...thanks for tip - I never had seen that one before!.....oh yeah!

 

Yeah, alias email addresses cannot be added to the default .Mac email account, a second account must be created for the alias email addresses. And new accounts can be created easily, so create a new "faux" account, of type IMAP (or POP) and then type in your alias identity addresses. More than one alias email address can be put into that field, just separate them with a comma. You can put the same info from your .Mac account into the other fields.

Duff-Man: sacear says... your welcome. Oh yeah!

 

Multiple address- one account

Apple's Mail.app program does have the ability to use different return addresses to make it appear as if it came from a different sender, while having only one account in Mail.app.

If, on the address line in the preferences for your account, you eneter one address after another, with a comma and a space between each, the addresses will appear in a compose/reply window as available addresses to send from.

You can access these addresses in the pop-up menu that will appear betwqeen the subject and the body of your message.

Good luck,
Brett Goldberg
Computer Medics, LLC

Apple Authorized Service Provider
Apple Product Professional