How to initiate a new email with an *existing* HME address

Perhaps when setting-up your account with the website, you will have received a confirmation email - this being common, if only to verify that the email address being registered actually exists.

To initiate an email using the associated Hide My Email address, find the confirmation email within your mailbox - and reply. Edit the draft as required - and then send. This email will be sent using the existing Hide My Email address.

While it is possible to originate an email message using an entirely new Hide My Email address while drafting a new email, there is no mechanism of which I am aware that permits you to originate a new email message using a pre-existing Hide My Email Address.

Apple invite submission of comments and feature requests via its Product Feedback portal. If you would like to see a specific feature or functionality in a future version - such as directly initiating a new email using an existing Hide My Email address - this would be the most appropriate channel through which to make a request:

Feedback - iPad - Apple

Ugly, ugly, ugly, but workable (did I mention ugly?): add a mail “from” alias in whichever mail client is in use here, using the original HME address copied from:

Create and manage Hide My Email addresses in Settings on iPhone - Apple Support

When using iPhone or iPad, mail should be pretty close to this: Settings > Apps > Mail > Mail Accounts > {select the mail account you want to send from} > Account Settings > Advanced > Email > Add Another Email > paste the HME address here

Over in Mail app in a new message compose window, tap on the “from” field, and select the HME address.

Might want to log some feedback with Apple about this too, as this is ugly-absurd.

sheilap11 wrote:

This is not viable for a number of reasons, but particularly because most emails like this you describe come from "no reply" addresses just verifying your account or HME address.

I have even tried your solution and tried to add the actual Helpdesk address to the "To" line, but since the email is a "no-reply" email, Mail won't even allow me to do that and change the recipient address to another at the same organization, so I can keep the HME as a "From".

Sorry but that's just not a viable solution, and I can confirm that, because I tried it multiple times! Apple needs to make HME functional for corresponding with the institutions we identify ourselves to using these addresses or the whole point of having it becomes moot. In many cases then you end up on 2 mailing lists - your original HME signup and your actual Apple address, because correspondence with the HME address is so hampered. There has to be a better solution.

Per my original reply, within the current implementation, there is no mechanism of which I am aware that permits you to originate a new email message using a pre-existing Hide My Email Address. Period.

Apple invite submission of comments and feature requests via its Product Feedback portal. If you would like to see a refinement of Hide My Email addresses facility to enable the ability to originate a new mail message using an existing Hide My Email address - and not just reply to an arriving mail from a third-party sent to the HME address - this would be the most appropriate channel through which to make a request:

Feedback - iPad - Apple

It is in your own best interests to submit a request - as unless requests are made, Apple may not consider or even appreciate the demand within its user community for such functionality. If others share your need - and, crucially, also submit requests - Apple may assign development resources.

MrHoffman, unless I'm missing something here in your description, this suggestion doesn't work with the native Mail App in iOS/iPadOS...

When you attempt to edit the From field, you are presented with a list of available (i.e. configured) email account addresses from which to choose - along with an option to generate a new (i.e., not pre-existing) HME address. This is not a free-text field.

LotusPilot wrote:

MrHoffman, unless I'm missing something here in your description, this suggestion doesn't work with the native Mail App in iOS/iPadOS...

When you attempt to edit the From field, you are presented with a list of available (i.e. configured) email account addresses from which to choose - along with an option to generate a new (i.e., not pre-existing) HME address. This is not a free-text field.

Odd. Works fine here. Add the alias, save, done, over to compose, select it, etc.

Please do not confuse these reply addresses with iCloud aliases. These reply addresses are not iCloud aliases.

I’ve been using a different means of HME and for many years, so I add these reply addresses on occasion, and as needed. Given I’m not doing this at production scale, this approach has worked fine. And like HME, I have the relay addresses configured and controlled at the mail server, and some few problematic recipients have “mysteriously” lost their associated relay addresses.

As for your feedback on initiating hundreds messages from HME addresses, send that to Apple.