Mail reply-to, redirects and forwarding ...

[LuKreme]

On 13-Dec-2007, at 16:01, Kevin Callahan wrote:
> If they redirect/forward email sent to Address A to their .Mac  
> account, can they REPLY with Address A ?

Yes.<1>

>  Thus far, they say if an email shows up in their .Mac, they don't  
> have an option to set a rule whereby email forwarded from a certain  
> address will use that address when they hit REPLY.

Well, that's true.

You can but as many email addresses as you want in Preferences =>  
Accounts => 'Email Address:', just put a comma between them.

When you hit reply, it will reply from the FIRST address listed in  
that field, but you will have a drop down on the "From:" header  
allowing you to choose any address you have in any account.

There's no way I know of to do it automagically, so you have to select  
the dropdown each time you want to change who the reply is from.  This  
is how I post with 'plus' addresses to some lists.

<1> That is to say, they can as far as Mail.app is concerned.  I don't  
know what Mac.com's SMTP server is setup to do.  It may object to  
email from 'georgesucks at whitehouse4sale.tld' being sent through it's  
servers.  I know that gmail allows outbound emails form addresses  
other than the validated gmail address.

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