Multiple "From" addresses

[dhp1080]

Hi everyone,

I'm just wondering if anyone has a solution for this problem. I use GMail for all my email. I like being able to find everything in one place. Therefore, I redirect multiple email addresses to my GMail account. Then in GMail, I use their "Send mail as" feature to send mail.

All in all, I'd like to know if I could send mail from multiple addresses under a single account on the iPhone. I know you can do this in Mail.app, but when you sync it with your iPhone, it doesn't sync the settings correctly.

Thanks for your help.

[Bad Ash]

I tried doing this a while back only to learn that sadly you can not do this.

[dhp1080]

Apple desperately needs to add this then.

[rdepom]

Must be new in 2.0, because I just discovered that this does in fact work. Set up an account in Mail.app on your Mac, and enter multiple addresses separated by commas in the field for your email address. Force a re-sync of mail accounts on your iPhone, and from then on you can choose. The "CC" line in new mail pages is replaced by "From, CC, BCC" and when you tap on that it expands to 3 separate fields. The From field activated a list selector for the addresses you entered.

Have fun :-)

[Bad Ash]

Originally Posted by rdepom

Must be new in 2.0, because I just discovered that this does in fact work. Set up an account in Mail.app on your Mac, and enter multiple addresses separated by commas in the field for your email address. Force a re-sync of mail accounts on your iPhone, and from then on you can choose. The "CC" line in new mail pages is replaced by "From, CC, BCC" and when you tap on that it expands to 3 separate fields. The From field activated a list selector for the addresses you entered.

Have fun :-)

I'm not 100% certain that is what he is looking for. All that does is select what mail account you want the outgoing message to be delivered by. You can only select one account no? Maybe I'm wrong.

[kilsey]

Originally Posted by rdepom

Must be new in 2.0, because I just discovered that this does in fact work. Set up an account in Mail.app on your Mac, and enter multiple addresses separated by commas in the field for your email address. Force a re-sync of mail accounts on your iPhone, and from then on you can choose. The "CC" line in new mail pages is replaced by "From, CC, BCC" and when you tap on that it expands to 3 separate fields. The From field activated a list selector for the addresses you entered.

Have fun :-)

I actually use this in Mail.app on my MacBookPro - it does indeed work there. Hven't tried on the iPhone yet...

[mqt]

Originally Posted by Bad Ash

I'm not 100% certain that is what he is looking for. All that does is select what mail account you want the outgoing message to be delivered by. You can only select one account no? Maybe I'm wrong.

That's exactly what he's looking for. The email RFC standards do not allow you to specify multiple "from" addresses at the same time.

[mqt]

Originally Posted by rdepom

Must be new in 2.0, because I just discovered that this does in fact work. Set up an account in Mail.app on your Mac, and enter multiple addresses separated by commas in the field for your email address. Force a re-sync of mail accounts on your iPhone, and from then on you can choose. The "CC" line in new mail pages is replaced by "From, CC, BCC" and when you tap on that it expands to 3 separate fields. The From field activated a list selector for the addresses you entered.

Have fun :-)

Good find.

Any idea how I can do this using only the iPhone software? Do the alternate addresses show up somewhere in the account settings?

[PSM]

Originally Posted by rdepom

Must be new in 2.0, because I just discovered that this does in fact work. Set up an account in Mail.app on your Mac, and enter multiple addresses separated by commas in the field for your email address. Force a re-sync of mail accounts on your iPhone, and from then on you can choose. The "CC" line in new mail pages is replaced by "From, CC, BCC" and when you tap on that it expands to 3 separate fields. The From field activated a list selector for the addresses you entered.

Have fun :-)

OK, I have tried this multiple times and can't get it working. Let me make sure I'm understanding the steps:

1. My account on my Mac (a MobileMe account) in prefs/Account/Account information/ Email Address has all my aliases separated by commas.

2. Not sure what you mean by forcing a re-sync of the mail account on the phone, but I deleted and recreated my account on the phone. I figure that should be good enough.

3. In Mail on the phone, when I create a new message the CC line still only expands to CC/BCC.

I have an iPhone 3G with FW 5A345. Thanks for any advice. I separate my various mail by aliases and really need to be able to reply from specific addresses.

[HymerSchmidt]

Originally Posted by PSM

OK, I have tried this multiple times and can't get it working. Let me make sure I'm understanding the steps:

1. My account on my Mac (a MobileMe account) in prefs/Account/Account information/ Email Address has all my aliases separated by commas.

2. Not sure what you mean by forcing a re-sync of the mail account on the phone, but I deleted and recreated my account on the phone. I figure that should be good enough.

3. In Mail on the phone, when I create a new message the CC line still only expands to CC/BCC.

I have an iPhone 3G with FW 5A345. Thanks for any advice. I separate my various mail by aliases and really need to be able to reply from specific addresses.

Update to the latest firmware if you can. You are a version behind.