{"id":114,"date":"2004-09-29T11:54:02","date_gmt":"2004-09-29T16:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2004-09-29T11:54:02","modified_gmt":"2004-09-29T16:54:02","slug":"how-to-use-multiple-email-addresses-for-a-single-account-using-mailapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"How to use multiple email addresses for a single account using Mail.app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve got a couple of email addresses under a single username\/password combination, let&#8217;s call them <i>a@a.com<\/i> and <i>b@a.com<\/i> (in actuality it&#8217;s more like <i>a@a.com<\/i>, <i>b@a.com<\/i>, <i>a@c.com<\/i> and <i>b@c.com<\/i> but two should suffice).  I was trying to figure out how to allow Mail.app (the email application that ships with OSX) to send as any of these email addresses (you might call these &#8220;aliases&#8221; or &#8220;outbound email addresses&#8221;).  I tried to configure a new account that wasn&#8217;t configured with an inbound server, but that didn&#8217;t work, so I asked Google:  <\/p>\n<p>And Google spoke (in the voice of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macintouch.com\/mail.app01.html\">this page<\/a>) saying:  You simply <strong>comma-delimit multiple email addresses<\/strong> when configuring an account and they all become available in the &#8220;account&#8221; dropdown when composing email.  A very clean solution (if not terribly intuitive or discoverable).  It&#8217;s exactly the sort of thing a novice email user would <strong>never<\/strong> need to know and an advanced user would know to (eventually) google for!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve got a couple of email addresses under a single username\/password combination, let&#8217;s call them a@a.com and b@a.com (in actuality it&#8217;s more like a@a.com, b@a.com, a@c.com and b@c.com but two should suffice). I was trying to figure out how to allow Mail.app (the email application that ships with OSX) to send as any of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}