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Permanently add Reply To headers in Mail.app
And this hint works in Leopard, too.
I have decided to consolidate all my email in a gmail account, but still keep the "from" address my official - and well-known to my friends and colleagues - school address. Gmail itself provides a nice interface to this, when using the web version of gmail: Settings/accounts and then "always send mail as" and set the default. But how to do this in Mail.app when using it as an imap client to Gmail? I didn't want to "Activate" my school account (purposely I am pulling all the email into gmail) and even if I did it is a nuisance selecting that pull down "From" item. So, I used the hint above, with a small variation. I did the first thing, set the "reply-to" (and was finally able to remove that field from my list of headers to view, and fill in), with this:
Then, I adapted that to set the "From" field:
You can see that I used single quotes on My Name and pointy brackets around my address, the way that most email programs expect it. A couple of test messages later, I was well pleased with the results. And my correspondents will no longer ask, "What is this ID I see?" ...r |
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