E-mail Aliases in "Mail"

Suppose that my on-line store, mystore.com, sell hats and gloves. The
company that hosts my site has assigned the e-mail address (and user
name) mystore@mystore.com to this account. But they will forward mail
addressed to anynamewhatsoever@mystore.com; in other words, they allow
me to use an unlimited number of e-mail aliases. That way, a person who
wants to enquire about a hat can e-mail hats@mystore.com and a person
who is interested in gloves can e-mail gloves@mystore.com. Filters in
"Mail" will sort the messages into the appropriate mailboxes for my
convenience.

The problem is that I don't seem to be able to set up an alias mail
account in "Mail" so that I can answer using the appropriate return
address. In MS Entourage I can have an account named "hats" which uses
the pop and smtp services at mystore.com's server, but that sends (or
appears to send) e-mail from "hats@mystore.com;" the same is true of
gloves.

How do I do this in Apple's "Mail" program? When I try to set up such
an account I get an error message that says "The account 'mystore'
already has this hostname and username."

An example of what I do with Entourage is the e-mail address in my sig.
It is a valid address, though it is only an alias. You can look at it,
and based on what I said above, figure out what my web-host-assigned
username and e-mail address are. But when someone replies to one of my
Usenet posts with the address below, Entourage permits me to answer
them using that address.

TIA!

Davoud

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In article <060920040006029681%star@sky.net>, Davoud <star@sky.net>
wrote:

> How do I do this in Apple's "Mail" program? When I try to set up such
> an account I get an error message that says "The account 'mystore'
> already has this hostname and username."

In the Accounts window, in the Email Address text edit field, enter all
the accounts for that hostname and username combination, separated by
commas--for example:

star@sky.net, nova@sky.net, supernova@sky.net, blackhole@sky.net

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In article <michelle-F93044.23111705092004@news.west.cox.net>,
Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:

> In article <060920040006029681%star@sky.net>, Davoud <star@sky.net>
> wrote:
>
> > How do I do this in Apple's "Mail" program? When I try to set up such
> > an account I get an error message that says "The account 'mystore'
> > already has this hostname and username."
>
> In the Accounts window, in the Email Address text edit field, enter all
> the accounts for that hostname and username combination, separated by
> commas--for example:
>
> star@sky.net, nova@sky.net, supernova@sky.net, blackhole@sky.net

Ohhh, thanks, I needed to know that.

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Davoud asked:
> > > How do I do this in Apple's "Mail" program? When I try to set up such
> > > an account I get an error message that says "The account 'mystore'
> > > already has this hostname and username."

Michelle Steiner kindly replied:
> > In the Accounts window, in the Email Address text edit field, enter all
> > the accounts for that hostname and username combination, separated by
> > commas--for example:
> > star@sky.net, nova@sky.net, supernova@sky.net, blackhole@sky.net

Tom Harrington said:
> Ohhh, thanks, I needed to know that.

Now Davoud comes back again with:

Hear, hear! Many thanks! I might have thought of that myself in a
million years or so.

Davoud

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In article <070920040017303788%star@sky.net>, Davoud <star@sky.net>
wrote:

> Hear, hear! Many thanks! I might have thought of that myself in a
> million years or so.

Me too. I found it in Mail's Help, under the heading of "Adding
multiple email addresses to the same account" in the "Setting up Mail"
section.

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In article <060920040006029681%star@sky.net>, Davoud <star@sky.com> wrote:
>
>How do I do this in Apple's "Mail" program? When I try to set up such
>an account I get an error message that says "The account 'mystore'
>already has this hostname and username."

As far as I know, there's no good way to do this.

russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto) writes:

> In article <060920040006029681%star@sky.net>, Davoud <star@sky.com> wrote:
> >
> >How do I do this in Apple's "Mail" program? When I try to set up such
> >an account I get an error message that says "The account 'mystore'
> >already has this hostname and username."
>
> As far as I know, there's no good way to do this.

See the other responses.

[in short, when filling in Account information, put
a list of e-mail addresses in the "Email Address"
field, separated by commas, and you'll get a pop-up
listing available From: addresses when you compose messages]



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Davoud wrote (to Michell Steiner):
> > Hear, hear! Many thanks! I might have thought of that myself in a
> > million years or so.

Michelle Steiner:
> Me too. I found it in Mail's Help, under the heading of "Adding
> multiple email addresses to the same account" in the "Setting up Mail"
> section.

Aaaah, you took the easy way out! I might have thought of that myself
in a million years or so.

Davoud

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Davoud:
> >
> >How do I do this in Apple's "Mail" program? When I try to set up such
> >an account I get an error message that says "The account 'mystore'
> >already has this hostname and username."

Matthew Russotto:
> As far as I know, there's no good way to do this.

*****

You missed Michelle Steiner's reply, which read "In the Accounts
window, in the Email Address text edit field, enter all the accounts
for that hostname and username combination, separated by commas--for
example:

star@sky.net, nova@sky.net, supernova@sky.net, blackhole@sky.net."

Michelle took a novel approach. She said that she found this "in Mail's
Help, under the heading of 'Adding multiple email addresses to the same
account' in the 'Setting up Mail' section." Who would have thought to
get help with "Mail" from the Mail's "Help" menu!?

Davoud

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In article <070920041318553804%star@sky.net>, Davoud <star@sky.com> wrote:
>Davoud:
>> >
>> >How do I do this in Apple's "Mail" program? When I try to set up such
>> >an account I get an error message that says "The account 'mystore'
>> >already has this hostname and username."
>
>Matthew Russotto:
>> As far as I know, there's no good way to do this.
>
>*****
>
>You missed Michelle Steiner's reply, which read "In the Accounts
>window, in the Email Address text edit field, enter all the accounts
>for that hostname and username combination, separated by commas--for
>example:
>
>star@sky.net, nova@sky.net, supernova@sky.net, blackhole@sky.net."
>
>Michelle took a novel approach. She said that she found this "in Mail's
>Help, under the heading of 'Adding multiple email addresses to the same
>account' in the 'Setting up Mail' section." Who would have thought to
>get help with "Mail" from the Mail's "Help" menu!?
>
>Davoud

In my defense, when I first tried to do this it was in 10.0, and I haven't
attempted it since.

As for help, I avoid it like the plague. Or Microsoft's Clippy.

Davoud <see@below.net> writes:
> Davoud wrote (to Michell Steiner):
> > > Hear, hear! Many thanks! I might have thought of that myself in a
> > > million years or so.
>
> Michelle Steiner:
> > Me too. I found it in Mail's Help, under the heading of "Adding
> > multiple email addresses to the same account" in the "Setting up Mail"
> > section.
>
> Aaaah, you took the easy way out! I might have thought of that myself
> in a million years or so.

Don't sweat it. I find the help system to be pretty generally
unhelpful. Someone posted in the newsgroups about the multiple
e-mail addresses thing, else I'd never have found it.

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In article <dICdnQPp2PmBbKDcRVn-uQ@speakeasy.net>,
russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto) wrote:

> As for help, I avoid it like the plague.

Do you also avoid cliches like the plague? <gigglesmirk>

-- Michelle

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In article <070920041314370456%see@below.net>, Davoud <see@below.net>
wrote:

> > Me too. I found it in Mail's Help, under the heading of "Adding
> > multiple email addresses to the same account" in the "Setting up
> > Mail" section.
>
> Aaaah, you took the easy way out! I might have thought of that myself
> in a million years or so.

Well, it obviously took me less time than that to think of it. <g>

Actually, I had been looking for something else when I stumbled across
it.

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In article <michelle-DCFD40.12170107092004@news.west.cox.net>,
Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
>In article <dICdnQPp2PmBbKDcRVn-uQ@speakeasy.net>,
> russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto) wrote:
>
>> As for help, I avoid it like the plague.
>
>Do you also avoid cliches like the plague? <gigglesmirk>

I thought the plague was a disease, not a cliche.

Matthew Russotto:
> >> As for help, I avoid it like the plague.

Michelle Steiner:
> >Do you also avoid cliches like the plague? <gigglesmirk>

Matthew Russotto:
> I thought the plague was a disease, not a cliche.

The plague is just fine. Avoiding it may be a cliché, however.

Davoud

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In article <4c-dnUoxBMqFi6PcRVn-iQ@speakeasy.net>,
russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto) wrote:

> >> As for help, I avoid it like the plague.
> >
> >Do you also avoid cliches like the plague? <gigglesmirk>
>
> I thought the plague was a disease, not a cliche.

Some would say that cliches are a disease.

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In article <070920041615470352%star@sky.net>, Davoud <star@sky.com> wrote:
>Matthew Russotto:
>> >> As for help, I avoid it like the plague.
>
> Michelle Steiner:
>> >Do you also avoid cliches like the plague? <gigglesmirk>
>
>Matthew Russotto:
>> I thought the plague was a disease, not a cliche.
>
>The plague is just fine. Avoiding it may be a cliché, however.

Well, cliche or no cliche, I prefer to stay healthy.

In article <U9OdndE4nrgsg6LcRVn-pQ@speakeasy.net>,
russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto) wrote:

> >Matthew Russotto:
> >> >> As for help, I avoid it like the plague.
> >
> > Michelle Steiner:
> >> >Do you also avoid cliches like the plague? <gigglesmirk>
> >
> >Matthew Russotto:
> >> I thought the plague was a disease, not a cliche.
> >
> >The plague is just fine. Avoiding it may be a cliché, however.
>
> Well, cliche or no cliche, I prefer to stay healthy.

Well, then avoid the plague like the plague.

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