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Difference Add Email Account: Email Address versus User Name; can I make User Name anything?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 13.1

Posted on Dec 22, 2022 10:12 AM

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Posted on Dec 22, 2022 11:36 AM

Depends on your email provider. Most of the time if your email address is dan.chicago@email.com then your user name would be 'dan.chicago'.

But if your email provider is giving you an alias or something like that then your email could be completely different from your user name.

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