Did you ever wonder if it’s possible to maintain more than one e-mail sender-address for a single account in Mail.app? Then this post is for you.
The reasons for sending mail—seemingly originating from different mail-accounts—are manifold, not all with good intentions, but let’s concentrate on valid reasons to do so. For example:
- All your e-mails are sent from your domain
mydomain.com. - Your “regular” e-mail address is
myname@mydomain.com.
So far, so good. Let’s assume you are developing software and you want to differentiate incoming mails regarding your software-package from all the other mails. The software is called mygreatsw. You could set up another mail-account mygreatsw@mydomain.com, but then you’ll have to deal with two mailboxes. There is another way, if you are using Mail.app, that is.
Open your “Preferences”-Panel in Mail.app and klick on “Accounts”. Activate the mail-account in question and add ,mygreatsw@mydomain.com to your already existing mailaddress myname@mydomain.com. The comma is important. The textbox “Email Address” should look like this now: myname@mydomain.com,mygreatsw@mydomain.com.
If you send a new e-mail now, there is a pop-up menu in the “Account”-line, allowing you to send the mail from myname@mydomain.com or mygreatsw@mydomain.com.
It is that simple, but often overlooked. Just in case you need to know.
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