Mail Aliases for Sending Messages

The problem:
I have an IMAP server that is correctly setup and working fine with Mail.app. When I want to send a message, whoever receives it will see the following identification: myname "[email protected]".
However, I share this account with my wife and want to keep it this way. Thus, everytime she sends a message, whoever receives it will see the above id with my name and email address. What I want is to have a way of her sending the message with an alias so the sender id would be: mywifename "[email protected]".
What I have tried so far
After reading many "alias"-related posts in this and other fora, the closest solution I found was to create a dummy imap account for my wife (i.e. one with a dummy setting for the incoming messages and a correct smtp setting for her name and email addres), but that comes to the expense of getting an error message every time mail.app tries to retrieve messages from the dummy server address (unchecking the mail preferences-advanced option "Include when automatically checking for new mail" only partially solves the problem, as sometimes I use the "get mail" button and get the unwanted error message).
Other thoughts
I understand this is possible when you have a .Mac account, since it allows you to use its predefined aliases when sending a message, but I couldn't find a way of having the same flexibility with an external imap server.
Thanks in advance for any hints on this issue.
Best regards,
Paulo

Hello David,
Thanks again for your time on this!
I am comfortable with the concept of an alias. Still, I see the way .Mac implement their "alias" feature as a different process than just adding an email alias or, in other words, just adding another email address associated to a mail account.
In my previous post I explained what I was able to do with what I am calling here as the .Mac "alias" feature, where I was able to not only associate another email address (i.e. an alias) to my .Mac account but to also associate another full name to that alias, and the whole pair full name "alias" to the email account.
In the end, I have such pair linked to my one .Mac account so when sending an email from that account I can choose whether it will appear to whoever receives it as MyName "[email protected]" or as MyWifeName "[email protected]".
This is exactly what I want to do, but at least with Mail.app I can only do it when using my .Mac account.
I totally agree with your statement that Mail allows me to specify one Full Name for each mail account, but I can tell you from my first-hand experience that the above extra full name "alias" feature is also possible for a unique .Mac account. The apparent contradiction (one full name only vs. two pairs full name-email addresses for the same account) is, IMHO, caused by the way .Mac implements its "alias" feature. I would guess that my account has only one real full name, but the .Mac "alias" feature allows me to use other "extra full names" in conjunction to extra email addresses (i.e. alias) for that unique account. In a loose analogy, that might be working in a similar way the name and short name within a Mac OS X user account works (i.e. one unique account identifier, the short name, but with the possibility of having an extra identity for that account, the name).
Anyway, the fact is that what I am already doing what I want to do (i.e. to have an extra pair MyWifeName "mywifename@myimapserver" for messages being sent from the same account) when using my .Mac account, but I can't do it with my other imap account. The workaround I cited in my first email is the best I could achieve so far, but it is a sub-optimal solution to say the least. Maybe there is a way of choosing an "extra" full name "alias" pair for the message being composed.
All the best,
Paulo
PowerMac Dual G5 2 Ghz, Powerbook G4 12" 1.5GHz Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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