Re: Address when replying in mail.app

Apologies if I've missed the context of this, but allow me to make
a suggestion...

Frank Peters <frank.peters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
dorayme wrote:
A friendly alias? You are at work. You get emails for work as an
officer of the company to one address? You have another email
address altogether for friends or private business within and
without the co? The private ones are allowed through but the
address put in by the sender is changed to your official work
address (and thus acts when you hit reply)?

The mail system includes two addresses, a nice one and an ugly one.
Alas, all incoming
email gets my address in the header rewritten to the ugly one. If the
ugly one would just
disappear entirely I'd be happy, but that isn't gonna happen because it
is the "primary"
address.

This doesn't sound uncommon. Lots of places have u14235@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
internally and your.name@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx as an alias. My university
had something similar and I had no troubles using Mail with the
system.

I ask, not because I know how to fix in Mail, but rather to see
what an alternative strategy might be. Like perhaps not having wo
email addresses but just one and using mail filters to sort
incoming somehow based on your circumstances,

I could certainly get rid of the nice address and just use the ugly
one. But it seems a
shame to have to do that just because of a deficiency in the mail
program. Other
clients (like pine and outlook) handle this situation fine.

Perhaps this has already been suggested, but here's what I'd do:

In Mail->Preferences->Accounts:

Email address: nice.address@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Full name: Nice Name You Want To Appear
Incoming mail server: mail.company.com.au
Username: uglyname
Password: password

Ta-da - you'll be able to receive all the mail bound for uglyname
and nice.address, but all the mail you send will come from
nice.address. If your mail server does not allow this, then
perhaps it is broken.

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