On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:33 AM, Chrysanthemum Hyphus <[email protected]>wrote:

Is there any way to edit the name associated with an email address in the
> from field?
> ...
>

> Right now it looks like I have to change it in the Account settings every
> time I want to edit this field, and then change it back.
> ...
>


Actually there is a way to have more than one personal name with the "same"
email address.

Gmail doesn't care about periods within the account name portion of your
address.  You can randomly add or remove periods and they all point to the
same Gmail account.  Go to Settings > Accounts and click on "Add another
email address you own".  For the email address, enter your own address but
with an extra period somewhere.  Gmail accepts the new address, even though
it is really yours.  It probably "shouldn't" work (Gmail should recognize
that it's yours), but for now it does work.

Andy

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