Dear Esther, Thank you for these steps regarding aliases. I indeed thought that it should be the case: i.e. one should be able to vo+arrow to the "from" button and there choose the alias one wishes. However, the difficulty is that the one I've created doesn't seem to feature. My main .me alias is listed but the other ones are not. I've just subscribed to a news letter using my alias - for argument's sake - [email protected], and I have just received a confirmation e-mail from the news letter website. I tried to reply to it as an exercise but my alias doesn't appear in the "from" list. It's strange.
With Best wishes Simon On 27 Jul 2009, at 22:59, Esther wrote: > > Hi Simon and Barry, > > Here's the way I use aliases. You don't need to do anything to sync > after you set them up, but you might need to restart mail if you set > up your aliases at the MobileMe web site while your mail app is > open. The following should work from your Apple mail app. > > 1. Command-R to reply to a message and type in your response > 2. VO-Left arrow to the mail header. Normally this would take you > to the "From:" field. You should now have a pop up button that > lists the various mail aliases and the associated names. For > example, you could have an email address that you use only for > mailing lists like simon_c AT me.com and another one for business > related correspondence like s_cavendish AT me.com, and these can be > separate from your main email account. Dot Mac users who started > services can use these with either the mac.com or me.com extensions, > but new users can only use me.com. > 3. Command-Shift-D to send the message. > > Barry, I suspect the reason that creating mail aliases is disabled > for trial subscriptions is that created aliases cannot be re-used by > anyone. So if you create lots of aliases and then discard them, > you're taking those names permanently out of circulation for all > current and future users. > > Having aliases is a great way to separate out your activities. > MobileMe does a good job of spam filtering (so does Gmail), but if > you don't want to give your primary email address when you sign up > for a trial software use or in order to download Stuffit Expander > from Smith Micro, you can give a mail alias designed for this > purpose and set up a smart mailbox to keep these messages separate. > > HTH. > > Cheers, > > Esther > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
