.mac aliases

I have several aliases set up in my .mac account. I just started using Mail to access that account, and I get mail sent to any of the aliases, but they don't show up with the colors as they do in .mac, and I cannot send from any of them.
I know I'm supposed to select an address from the "accounts" pop-up menu, but there is no pop-up menu for that.
I'm running OS 10.3.9, and Mail v 1.3.11
Thanks,
Andy
iMac   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Hi Hilal.
I don’t know whether this would make a difference, but it may be worth a try:
1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
2. Make a backup copy of the ~/Library/Mail folder, just in case something goes wrong while trying to solve the problem. You can do this in the Finder by dragging the folder to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down, for example. This is where all your mail is stored.
3. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Preferences/. Locate com.apple.mail.plist and move it to the Desktop (to be deleted if this fixes the problem).
4. Open Mail. You’ll have to set up your non-.Mac accounts from scratch all over again. If given the option to import existing mailboxes or something like that, don’t. Just enter the account information and Mail will automagically rediscover the data in ~/Library/Mail/ when done.
You’ll also have to re-configure most of your settings in Mail > Preferences. For spam-related security reasons, the first thing you should do is go to Preferences > Viewing and disable Display remote images in HTML messages if it’s enabled.
5. As a side effect of re-creating com.apple.mail.plist, Mail might rename Outbox (which is where messages waiting to be sent are stored) to Delivered. The name of that mailbox is actually a misnomer, as it would contain messages (if any) that couldn’t be delivered for some reason. You can delete that mailbox if you wish.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. You can easily locate any of the folders referred to in this post by copying the folder path here, doing Go > Go to Folder in the Finder, and pasting the folder path there.

Similar Messages

  • .Mac aliases no longer appearing in Account pop-up menu

    Hi, a couple of days ago I noticed that my .Mac aliases are no longer listed in the Account pop-up menu of new messages. I thought it's a temporary .Mac problem, but this has continued.
    The account is a .Mac account (not POP nor IMAP), and I can go to Mail>Preferences>Accounts and click on the "Edit Email Aliases" button and can see that they are all still there on .Mac.
    How can I get them to show up again?
    MacBook Pro   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

    Hi Hilal.
    I don’t know whether this would make a difference, but it may be worth a try:
    1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
    2. Make a backup copy of the ~/Library/Mail folder, just in case something goes wrong while trying to solve the problem. You can do this in the Finder by dragging the folder to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down, for example. This is where all your mail is stored.
    3. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Preferences/. Locate com.apple.mail.plist and move it to the Desktop (to be deleted if this fixes the problem).
    4. Open Mail. You’ll have to set up your non-.Mac accounts from scratch all over again. If given the option to import existing mailboxes or something like that, don’t. Just enter the account information and Mail will automagically rediscover the data in ~/Library/Mail/ when done.
    You’ll also have to re-configure most of your settings in Mail > Preferences. For spam-related security reasons, the first thing you should do is go to Preferences > Viewing and disable Display remote images in HTML messages if it’s enabled.
    5. As a side effect of re-creating com.apple.mail.plist, Mail might rename Outbox (which is where messages waiting to be sent are stored) to Delivered. The name of that mailbox is actually a misnomer, as it would contain messages (if any) that couldn’t be delivered for some reason. You can delete that mailbox if you wish.
    Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. You can easily locate any of the folders referred to in this post by copying the folder path here, doing Go > Go to Folder in the Finder, and pasting the folder path there.

  • .Mac Aliases in Mail Preferences?

    On my Powerbook, it is not showing my .Mac aliases, and there is no button in the Mail preferences that allows me to show .Mac aliases. I'm baffled as to why this is. On my work Mac (an 2005 iMac (don't have specifics here at home)), there is a button in the preferences that allowed me to include the aliases in the Account pulldown menu when composing a message. I synch between the two computers using .mac as well, but my home computer is my primary computer.
    Any ideas as to why this is working on one computer and not the other? Is my version of "Mail" just old? If so, how can I download a newer version?

    I just found that on my home Powerbook, the .mac account is set to be a POP instead of a .Mac. I disabled the account and created a new one with the same settings except making it the correct kind of account, and the aliases now work.

  • Copy a folder with Mac Aliases from Terminal

    there is any way to use "cp" command or other ones to copy from Terminal a folder that contains Mac Aliases into it?
    t.i.a

    Try using the ditto command to perform the copy as you would for a folder which doesn't contain aliases.
    (33273)

  • Help!  Using email .mac aliases with iPhone???

    I hope I can explain this in simple terms. Does anyone know why or how to use a different alias under my .mac email account with iPhone? In other words, I use one of my alias email addresses as my primary, but in iPHone there isn't a place to designate which account I want mail sent from...so right now if comes from my main .mac account name.
    Why didn't they think about this?

    The iPhone does not support .mac aliases at this time.

  • Once again, my .mac aliases have disappeared from Mail.... Arghhh! help?

    Once again, with no warning, all my .mac aliases have disappeared from the dropdowns in my Mail app (OS 10.4.11). They still exist in .mac/mobile me webmail, and in Mail i'm still receiving emails addressed to them. But I can't reply to these emails with the alias, nor create new emails with aliases.
    I have tried Sync-ing with the site- i recollect that has worked in the past, but now no change. i have tried adding the aliases in with commas after the primary address in Preferences (as is suggested in KB below), but it does not work- and the next time Prefs is open, they are gone. In Mail preferences, the account is listed as ".mac", which is listed in the KB as one of the correct types (the other being imap).
    I use my .mac aliases a lot, and have for years. i do NOT like or want to go to .mac/me Webmail to be able to use them. i do NOT want to change them to .me addresses/aliases. I can't stand how they just randomly come and go as far as being available as dropdowns in Mail... what the heck is up with Apple? i'm paying $100 for these kinds of services (excuse me, $99) and they can't keep a few aliases available to their own app (Mail)? If they weren't so deeply embedded in my business uses, i'd ditch the whole thing.
    Anyway, enuf ranting; does anyone know the solution or work-around? Nothing in the below KB worked for me, even tho it is supposed to.
    the non-helpful KB: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2296

    If your aliases are disappearing after you enter them, that would indicate that your Mail preferences file has become corrupted. The only solution for that is to delete the com.apple.mail.plist file in Home/Library/Preferences, then restart Mail and setup your account(s) again.
    However, before you do that, you must remove all your mail account folders that being with "IMAP-"; otherwise you'll create more problems for yourself. Those are located in Home/Library/Mail.

  • Replies and .Mac Aliases

    Hi,
    .Mac aliases don't seem to support capital letters. [email protected] turns into [email protected]
    That's fine, and one can send an email to either address.
    However, if someone sends an email to [email protected] (note the capital letter), Mail will reply using...
    "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
    Is there any way to set it so that if someone sends an email to an alias with a slight capital letter change, Mail will still reply from that account (and show that it is that account). I want the reply to show up as...
    "[email protected]" <[email protected]> regardless of if the email was sent to Example or example.
    Any ideas?
    Thank you!
    btabz

    btabz,
    Testing with another User Account, the behavior seems the same, and as that New User, I gave it no opportunity to "learn" anything.
    However, there is an oddity to note -- I have Mail Preferences/Composing set to highlight any address, not of my primary Domain. As a result of this, all my .mac addresses are marked in Red, whenever I use one as the From address (this also marks the To addresses not of the chosen domain) -- I find it helps me focus on whether I am using the intended address, since my Usernames are similar for several addresses/domains. Anyway, when I hit Reply for one of these .mac alias address authored emails, the resulting default address that we have been testing, is not marked in Red, but if I choose one from the list, it is! Also, if I use Reply for a message sent to my main .mac address, then that address is marked in Red immediately.
    This is confusing, I realize, but it means Mail is not recognizing the .mac alias as a foreign domain, when first using Reply.
    Odd, to say the least.
    Ernie

  • Using .Mac aliases in Mail?

    I registered two aliases, one for registrations and one for mailing lists I'm on so that it's easy to sort the stuff out. It's working pretty well so far, but unfortunately I can't put mail on the list from Mail because of the fact that it automatically sends from the main address and not the alias, and hence it gets bounced for not being on the list. I know I can specify which I want to send from when I'm logged in to .Mac on the Apple website, but that kind of defeats the purpose of using Mail in the first place at that point. Is there a way around this without registering my main account with the list?

    Paul,
    if you have set up your .Mac account as IMAP or POP (instead of .Mac), you can manually add the aliases to that account - simply add the additional email adresses to the address field in the account preferences, separating the individual addresses by commas. You should then get an account popup for outgoing messages which allows you to specify the sending account.
    Andreas

  • Dot Mac aliases

    I finally got myself an iPhone despite what I read about how it does not handle the aliases I use for my dot Mac account. I've been using the work-around for it where you set up your account as a generic IMAP account with the alias as the e-mail address however, even though I set the alternate account as the default and I am very careful to read all my dot Mac mail from the generic IMAP version, when ever I reply to an e-mail it has been sending it from my regular account address rather than the correct alias. This will not work for me. I'm glad I've only replied to a couple of family members but I'm trying not to use that address for ANY e-mail, just the alias.
    I tried disabling the regular dot Mac version that the sync set up but then the IMAP one doesn't seem to update properly and the mail program would freeze or not work properly. When I turned it back on so I had the regular dot Mac setup (which lets me send photos to my web gallery automatically, something i like) and the generic IMAP account using the alias my mail downloads and opens normally. I just have to put up with getting told I have twice as much e-mail. I think that disabling the regular dot Mac setup and just using the generic IMAP setup worked to force it to reply from the correct account but I am not sure.
    I really need to know how to make this work properly since there is no way for me to check that it is sending from the correct account when I reply to e-mail.

    Am I really the only dot mac user who uses aliases instead of my account address who also uses an iPhone? It's very hard to reply to email on my phone because of this. Even if I remember to go and turn of my dot mac account in the mail settings so that the alternate setup will reply properly my replies don't include the original message because wthout the dot mac account active the regular IMAP setup won't download the entire email. I'd really like to be able to fix this. I figured that I'd find the answer here since this was where I was told how to do it.

  • Using .mac aliases with iPhone

    I have an alias email that I use as my primary....how do I embrace this on the iphone? I can receive emails to this alias but my reply seems to be with my account email....any thoughts?

    I spent about 20-25 minutes trying to find a definitive solution to this question at work this evening. Here's what I've come up with...
    You can only configure the .Mac account email to work with your primary account for sending/receiving on the device. Which means that even though I can receive alias messages, I can only send from the primary account.
    I dispatched an email to .Mac support and waiting to hear, perhaps they might know or have verified this to be true as well.

  • Problem with Mac OS X aliases in Dreamweaver

    I have a folder full of MP3s in the Music folder in my User directory. I'm planning to use these MP3s on several different websites I own, and rather than copying each MP3 to several different Site folders, this seems like a perfect use for an alias. So I used the Finder command (command-L) to create an alias for each MP3, and then moved that alias to the appropriate folder within my (local) website directory.
    However, within Dreamweaver these files are showing up as aliases (i.e., a file named "track1.mp3 alias" rather than simply "track1.mp3") and when I try to upload them to the remote server, they don't behave as I would expect - that is, act as a pointer to the actual MP3 file.
    It seems like I'm misunderstanding something here, or else going about this the wrong way. Any help out there!
    Thanks!
    - sounddevisor

    Kath-H wrote:
    when I try to upload them to the remote server, they don't behave as I would expect - that is, act as a pointer to the actual MP3 file.
    Now I'm confused!
    Yeah, me too. I had the impression the OP wanted to upload the Mac aliases and expected them to behave like an alias on the server.
    sounddevisor, DW does recognize Mac aliases on your local filesystem. I have several sites where I've created an alias at the top level to files that are several levels deep in the site, and I can open the file in DW by double-clicking on the alias in the DW Files panel.
    However -- it sounds like you expect DW to upload the original file to the server for website #1 when you select the alias in website #2 and "put" the file? I don't see how that would be possible. DW works within defined sites, and when you're working with website #2 and select an alias to a file that belongs to a different website, DW only knows that that file is outside of the document root for website #2. DW knows the relationship between the alias and the original on your local filesystem, but it has no idea of the relationship between those files on the server's filesystem. For all DW knows, the sites could be on completely separate servers.
    If your objective is simply to avoid having multiple copies of the mp3s on your local filesystem, then just don't make multiple copies. Upload all the mp3s to the server for site1, and then simply link to them in site2, site3, etc.

  • .Mac mail aliases from iPhone

    Have been searching about this, but could not find the answer. Does anyone know how (or if it is possible) to use .Mac aliases when sending mails from iPhone?
    Thanks.
    SCBZK

    Thanks. Did help. Though, after trying number of days with this, it is getting annoying to receive copies of all mails addressed to any of my .Mac account, into every alias I have made on my iPhone...
    Maybe, I must wait until Apple does something about this.
    BTW, already submitted a request to Apple, fyi.

  • Upgrade to 10.8 broke all (?) aliases

    Yesterday, I upgraded from 10.7.5 to 10.8.3 via App Store.   As I've gingerly returned to work post-upgrade, everything seems OK so far, except:  Most (all?) of my existing aliases are broken.  Never had any particular problem with aliases before.  Now, when I click on an alias, I get the standard error message ;ole this:
       The alias “foo” can’t be opened because the original item can’t be found.
    All the aliases I've checked so far are broken.   I can't think of anything that would explain this. It isn't an earth-shattering  problem, but definitely a pain, as I depend quite a bit on aliases to access folders and files.
    Test 1:   I examined a broken, recently-made alias to a folder by doing File --> Get Info on it.  Nothing seems amiss.  I copied the path of the original from the Get Info box and placed it in quotes after "cd "  on a Terminal command line, schematically:
         cd "/work/Project 5/Subproject C/Yellow/Working Files/"
    Since the alias fails, I expected this command to fail, but it doesn't.  It puts me right where I expected to be, as I defined the alias.  So the problem isn't the path, exactly.
    Test 2: I tried clicking on a much older alias.  (Yeah, it is superstitious of me to assume the age of the alias might make a difference -- but what else do I have?)  According to its Get Info, I created it in 2010, and modified it last November. 
    It failed, too, but before I got the usual "... because the original item can't be found ..." error message I got this alert:
      There was a problem connecting to the server "sam.local"
      The server may not exist or it is unavailable at this time.
        Check the server name or IP address, check your network
        connection, and then try again.
    where "Sam" is my computer name.  After I respond OK to this, I get the usual "... because the original item can't be found ..."   This sequence is repeatable.    HUH?  Wait, isn't "myhost.local" always available?   I'm having no trouble at all with network operations. No problem accessing email, the web, and a LAN-connected printer.    OK, maybe this error message is a red-herring, an artifact.  
    Returning to the fundamental issue: I looked again, more closely,  at the Get Info for this older alias.  Wait, the original path shown seems to date back to 2010.  I modified the name of the target folder about 6 months ago.  That explains the sumptom, but not why this alias worked yesterday and fails today. 
    Yeah, there seems to be an inconsistency between Test 1 and Test 2 as described above.  By my observations:  When following an alias, and when displaying Get Info for an alias, Finder gets confused. Is it possible that the mechanism for tracking aliases was completely changed in 10.8, and that the new accounting was not properly updated in my case?
    Easy enough to fix each particular case with "Select new Original..." in the Get Info dialog, or  "Fix alias" in the standard broken alias dialog.  But ... But...
    Better ideas?   How about an overall fix?  
    TIA

    More experience with this issue:
    When I find a broken  alias -- one apparently broken by updating to 10.8.3-- I open the info box (Finder -> File -> Get Info) for the alias and carefully observe (text copy and/or screenshot)  the path to the original file.
    Then I accept the invitation in the info box,  "Select New Original...", navigate to the original file, and choose ("open")  it.
    The info box stays open.  Here is what I see:   No change in the path.  As far as the UI is concerned I have not changed anything.  But... now the alias works.  
    Could this be due to insertion of faulty data, e.g. unprintable characters?   Or, as I interpret the Wikipedia article on Mac aliases, linkages from alias to the original are made based on more than the path, also the file ID. Updating the OS should not damage any of this data, and yet it seems clear something has gone wrong.   In at least some cases.  I find I currently have almost 700 aliases defined.  A quick spot-check seems to indicate mostly recent ones got clobbered.
    Any ideas?

  • Can you use an .mac alias as "from" email address in .mac account?

    My .mac account is in my full name @.mac and MAIL automatically uses that as the "from" email address when i send mail. Is there any way to use one of my .mac aliases instead?

    For the email account preferences for any email account, there is a Name field which you can enter anything to appear as your name when sending a message with the account and there is an email address field for the same. With a .Mac account, you cannot enter a different email address to appear as the sending email address for a message sent by the account.
    You can send messages from your .Mac account alias email address but the name you have entered for the Name field under the Account Information for your .Mac account preferences will be the name shown with the alias email address when sending a message with the alias.

  • Organising Mail - What's the best way of setting up rules for aliases?

    Hello friendly helpful people.
    I'm a recent switcher, and am enjoying all the new things to learn about the mac and OSX (Tiger 10.4.5), so please forgive any basic questions I may ask. I have searched the forums and not found the answers to my particular situation.
    I have a mac account (shared with my wife) and its all setup in Mail fine and dandy. Lets call this email [email protected] I have then created two aliases for us to use, lets call these [email protected] and [email protected]
    My wife has an iBook and I have a PowerMac G5 - both running Mail.
    My goal is to get to a situation where we can both see emails sent to [email protected] - but we have individual rules to move out our respective aliases.
    e.g. I would like to see emails addressed to [email protected], but not necessarily to [email protected] My wife would like to see the converse of [email protected], but not [email protected]
    Q1) If an email is sent to both [email protected] and [email protected] - do I get two copies? If so, how do I setup a rule to move only one?
    Q2) If I have read the other postings elsewhere, am I right to believe that moving an email to a folder "On My Mac" it will delete it from the server? So when my wife checks email on her iBook, it won't be there?
    Currently, I have attempted to set up a folder in .mac mail called "Wife's email" and "Hubby's email" - which means at least it doesn't get removed from the server.
    Is there a better way of organising your incoming email? How has other people organised their mac aliases?
    Many thanks in advance for your help and ideas.
    Brocks

    Brocks,
    There are several different ways to aid in what you ask. If you are not wanting to move emails, a simple approach would be to create Smart Mailboxes, which are not really mailboxes, but only lists created by some search rules, and the messages remain in the original Inbox, until actually moved.
    Set up one to list those addressed to Shared and Hubby, and another to list those addressed to Shared and Wife. See:
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/2.0/en/ml1099.html
    and
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/wn07.html
    Each of you would mostly ignore the Inbox, until taking some action, such as deleting or moving to On My Mac mailboxes (which are New Mailboxes, as opposed to New Smart Mailboxes).
    This seems to suit what you desire, but if not, post further details.
    Ernie

Maybe you are looking for