Michael Voong HCI Researcher @ Birmingham University

Multiple From Address in Apple Mail

I’ve tried Apple’s Mail application a few times before - the responsiveness of a native application to handle your emails cannot be replicated with a web application. One thing I have never figured out how to do is an easy way to select a different from address when composing a new mail. Outlook did this, Gmail allows this, but I couldn’t figure out how to do it in Mail.

Well, after searching around again, the solution goes like this..

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.

Apple really should have documented this a bit easier, or even made it obvious in the UI. I’m sure I’m not the only one who couldn’t find this…

Thanks for documenting this. I ran into the same problem earlier and spend hours researching the solution. So annoying!

Thank you for sharing and documenting this.

(Sorry for double comment - typo in the first one, please delete.)

Thanks, this has saved me hours of mucking around trying to find a solution.