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Authored by: palahala on Aug 24, '09 11:47:55AM
This makes sense, as Mail is using the "Address" field as the user name.

No, this does not make sense to me. Why would Mail use the value from the Email Address field? There's a dedicated field for User Name, which should be used during authentication.

(Of course, when adding additional addresses, one should register those in Gmail, and optionally tell Gmail to use one's own server, for otherwise Gmail will refuse to use that Sender address. But that's an issue with sending, not with receiving. And for sending, Mail has a User Name as well, and should not use the value from Email Address.)



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