Dear Barry, No I haven't done so yet. I shall do it straight away. Thanks.
With best, Simon On 29 Jul 2009, at 21:57, Barry Hadder wrote: > > Simon, > > Have you tried putting your alias in to email field of the acount/info > panel? If it is set up on the server, this should enable it to show > up in the list. You just want to separate it from your other address > with a cama. > > On Jul 29, 2009, at 3:47 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote: > >> >> Dear Esther, >> >> Thank you for these steps regarding aliases. I indeed thought that it >> should be the case: i.e. one should be able to vo+arrow to the "from" >> button and there choose the alias one wishes. However, the difficulty >> is that the one I've created doesn't seem to feature. My main .me >> alias is listed but the other ones are not. I've just subscribed to a >> news letter using my alias - for argument's sake - s...@me.com, and I >> have just received a confirmation e-mail from the news letter >> website. >> I tried to reply to it as an exercise but my alias doesn't appear in >> the "from" list. It's strange. >> >> With Best wishes >> >> Simon >> On 27 Jul 2009, at 22:59, Esther wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi Simon and Barry, >>> >>> Here's the way I use aliases. You don't need to do anything to sync >>> after you set them up, but you might need to restart mail if you set >>> up your aliases at the MobileMe web site while your mail app is >>> open. The following should work from your Apple mail app. >>> >>> 1. Command-R to reply to a message and type in your response >>> 2. VO-Left arrow to the mail header. Normally this would take you >>> to the "From:" field. You should now have a pop up button that >>> lists the various mail aliases and the associated names. For >>> example, you could have an email address that you use only for >>> mailing lists like simon_c AT me.com and another one for business >>> related correspondence like s_cavendish AT me.com, and these can be >>> separate from your main email account. Dot Mac users who started >>> services can use these with either the mac.com or me.com extensions, >>> but new users can only use me.com. >>> 3. Command-Shift-D to send the message. >>> >>> Barry, I suspect the reason that creating mail aliases is disabled >>> for trial subscriptions is that created aliases cannot be re-used by >>> anyone. So if you create lots of aliases and then discard them, >>> you're taking those names permanently out of circulation for all >>> current and future users. >>> >>> Having aliases is a great way to separate out your activities. >>> MobileMe does a good job of spam filtering (so does Gmail), but if >>> you don't want to give your primary email address when you sign up >>> for a trial software use or in order to download Stuffit Expander >>> from Smith Micro, you can give a mail alias designed for this >>> purpose and set up a smart mailbox to keep these messages separate. >>> >>> HTH. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Esther >>> >>>> >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
