A caution on changing the iPhone's Email Address field

Jan 22, '09 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: kioarthurdane

Let's say you have several email addresses, and you'd rather people send mail to only one of those. In a desktop email application, it would be logical to use the Reply-To setting to change the email address your recipients see as your preferred email box.

And while the Email Address line in the iPhone settings screen might seem a logical place to use the preferred address, this does not have expected results. Using this approach, Mail can become confused, and may send your corporate email via your personal account. The recipient will see your corporate address, but the message will show up in your personal Sent mailbox. Or it may not send at all, instead reporting that you have some number of unsent messages.

On an iPhone, and regardless of your preferred method for people emailing you, you must keep the Email Address line in each account set to that account's actual email address. Duplications will just cause headaches.

I haven't come up with an ideal solution, but as a workaround, try this. Because there's no Reply-To field, I suggest using a signature for all accounts that includes the preferred address.

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