It's all very well using dots or plus-addressing with a Gmail address but what 
if the From address is not Gmail?

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Marko


> On 30 Sep 2013, at 22:25, Kenneth Ayers <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Andy <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:33 AM, Chrysanthemum Hyphus <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
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>> 
>>> 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
> 
> Or use plus addressing and send emails from the old name using 
> <[email protected]> or something like that for those who aren't 
> used to the new name yet.  
> 
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