Their reply came in by email to a Gmail account that consolidates emails for me. I’d sent them a message from my Paypal account using the Email Us form on their web site.
But what happens when I receive a message that was sent to one of the accounts Gmail is checking for me? If I hit reply in Apple Mail, there is no way to send the reply FROM the account that originally received the message. This works well enough and this is how I access my Gmail account. Gmail has great spam filters so I find it useful to run all my email accounts through Gmail.Īpple Mail has fairly good IMAP support and allows me to access my Gmail account over IMAP. Gmail even lets me send out messages as though the message originates from one of these accounts. This way if I ever receive spam to this forwarding address I will know exactly where the address was leaked from.īut here is the issue: What if I later need to send someone (the site owner, for instance) an email from With Apple Mail there is no obvious way to do this.Īnother example: I use a Gmail account to consolidate emails from a number of other accounts I have. For example, forwards to re In this example is my real email address, and is the name of the site I am giving an email address to, such as during an account registration process. I set up this unique address on my mail server as a forwarder.
This is an alias address that forwards to a real email address/account.įor instance, if I am providing an email address to a web site I don’t necessarily trust with my address (will they sell it to a spam list?) I will provide them with a unique alias or forwarding address. One example: I use email forwarding addresses a lot. What do I mean by this? Check out the following examples. In Apple Mail it is possible to send an email message from a different email address than the one associated with the email account you are using to send/receive through.
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