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User profile for user: nicholas.he
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Can I change my 'From' email address?

Hello all,


I am hoping to change my 'From' email address in Mail.app in Lion. I have my own SMTP credentails to use my own domain email address in gmail. I would love to use this same 'from' address in Mail.app, but I cannot work out how this works. Is this possible? I want to stop having my Gmail address being shown when I use Mail.app.


Ideally, this would also work in the Mail app in iOS. 🙂


I know that I cannot use my own domain email in iCloud, so for now I must continue to use Gmail.


I would love to hear the experiences of powerusers in Mail.app on Lion.


Best,


Nicholas

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Mar 25, 2012 9:08 AM

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User profile for user: leroydouglas
leroydouglas
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Posted on Mar 25, 2012 9:36 AM

iMail>Preferences>Accounts>Account Information>Email Address


Make change here,


or add another email address to the list seperated by comma, this will give you a drop down menu to choose which address you want in From field.

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User profile for user: mac3739
mac3739
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Oct 12, 2016 8:36 PM in response to LCAScott

Hello all, I'm new to this MAC stuff (despite my name !)

Always been a Microsoft Windows man.


I have 3 accounts in mail.

The thing I found with the SMTP settings in my account settings, was that there were 2 entries in the drop down list.

One had just the server address.

The other had the server address with the (I assume) default account email address after it. This was selected.

By changing the selection to the "Just the server address", then i got the "from" drop down list in the compose screen.

Before, it was always sending from the email address named in the SMTP list.


Regards


Mac.

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Can I change my 'From' email address?

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