Inspired by the recent lifehacker post on Your Ultimate Email Setup I decided that it was time to do something about my increasingly difficult to manage and tedious email setup.
I took the plunge and set up one GMail account to rule them all, the idea being that using the IMAP support in GMail I could still use Mail.app (as god intended), but also check messages from my phone and reply to any account from any internet connection (kind of thing).
Setting up GMail to fetch mail and reply from different accounts was easy and is widely documented.
What is not so obvious was how to set up Mail.app to reply from different aliases or email addresses when using the same GMail account.
It turns out that what you need to do is enter each of the multiple addresses or aliases you want to use as a comma separated list in the Email Address field on the Account Settings screen. So something like this....
All these different addresses will then appear in the From selection box when you're composing a new mail.
Another top tip, is to set the IMAP Path Prefix (under Advanced) to Inbox.
This will make sure that all your mails go only to your Inbox, rather than being duplicated in another mysterious IMAP Mailbox.
I'd never used Mail.app with IMAP before but had heard people mention about it's lack of multiple account support and having to mark messages as read twice and so on. Hopefully this will help!
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