Sending Mail from an Alias In Mac

October 9, 2009 12:49 PM

Mac Mail: How can I send email from a different address without check that address inbox?

I use Mail.app to manage my work email ([e-mail]). Is there a clean way to send mail from an alias ([e-mail]) without adding that alias as an account and therefore needing to type in that account's password and be forced to check its messages, which are managed by someone else?

I have accomplished this in the past by adding another alias ([e-mail]) and using a non-public inbox as the incoming server for the account, but I find that extremely clunky and hope there's a different way around it.

posted by sjuhawk31 to computers & internet (7 comments total)

Does this help?
posted by kindall at 12:51 PM on October 9

You can uncheck "Include this account when checking for new messages" under the Advanced tab of the accounts setup in Mail.app.
posted by odinsdream at 12:53 PM on October 9

In a way, kindall, but the added wrinkle is that I want the other address to have a different Name associated with it, so that people will not see that it came from me but from the newsletter itself.
posted by sjuhawk31 at 12:54 PM on October 9

Oh yeah, if you need a different name on the account, you do need to set it up as a totally separate account, and turn off checking it for messages.
posted by kindall at 3:32 PM on October 9

If you're open to experimenting with other clients, Mozilla's Thunderbird has the 'Identities' feature, which allows you to set up a list of email addresses that you use. You can choose any of them off a dropdown when you compose a message, and if you reply to a message to one of your identities, you'll automatically reply from that same address without needing to do anything. You can still change it, but it will default to replying from the same address.

I just poked around mail.app a little bit, and I don't see any equivalent feature jumping out at me.
posted by Malor at 5:28 PM on October 9

In the Preferences > Accounts > Account information tab, there is a field for "Email Address:". You can list as man e-mail addresses as you like in there - comma separated.

Then, when you compose a new e-mail, you will find that the From field has become a little menu, which you can use to choose which of your e-mail addresses you want to use.
posted by mr. strange at 2:31 PM on October 11

...You can list as *many* e-mail addresses as you like...
posted by mr. strange at 2:32 PM on October 11