Modify From: field in Mail Inbox view

So I have what I hope to be a pretty straightforward question, but I can't seem to discover how to change it. I know if must be sitting right under my nose. When I'm viewing my Inbox in Mail, there are emails under the From column that list the senders name and others that list the senders email address. When doing searches in Mail, I like to use a persons name, but that doesn't work for some senders when its their address. I then have to modify the search using their email address. Quite a pain. Is there a way to change this or modify those emails that list the email versus the name in the From column? I have the user in my Address book and would have thought that is how Mail tags someone. Thanks in advance for your help.

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Is there any way I can set the default "from" field in Mail based on the account I'm sending from?
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In the Composing prefs I can either select ONE default email address to send ALL mail from, or I can select to send from "Account of Last Viewed Mailbox", in which case Mail will choose a work email address if I'm in a work mailbox and a personal email address if I'm in a personal mailbox.
That second option is great, except I can't control which work email address it chooses - A or B. Changing the order of the email addresses in the Account Information->Email Address field has no effect - it consistently chooses the "wrong" one :-/
Any way I can use "Account of Last Viewed Mailbox" and still set a default mail address per account?

Since my last post, I found tried putting
Preferences->Accounts->Email address to be my edu address
would add my .edu address as one of my from choices
Next, I sent myself a mail message, with following result:
The .edu address is now rejected by the outgoing server with the message:
Cannot send message using the server
The sender address (my .edu address) was rejected by the server
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> Hi
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The From field should include a drop down menu from which you chose the address you want to ue for that message.

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Is there any way to set the From field in messages. I have two email addresses:
an .edu address at an university
a .net at my ISP
I’d like the From field to be my .edu addreess. Mail sent to my .edu address is forwarded to an address of my choosing, which happens to be my .net address. I would, however, like to keep my .net relatively hidden so I can change ISPs. We did that year switching from cable to DSL.
I tried changing Mail Preferences->Accunts->Email Address
to my .edu address. That, however, did not work. My DSL provider ignored the Email Address field and inserted my .net address in the from field. (I believe this method worked when I had a cable ISP.)

Since my last post, I found tried putting
Preferences->Accounts->Email address to be my edu address
would add my .edu address as one of my from choices
Next, I sent myself a mail message, with following result:
The .edu address is now rejected by the outgoing server with the message:
Cannot send message using the server
The sender address (my .edu address) was rejected by the server
I had this working at some time, but not now. Help, please.

Change "Return-From" field in mail.app messages

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I need recipients of the email to be able to select Reply and have the email come back to the same email address as the From field, but if they have an out of office turned on, or if the email is no longer a valid email address, I need those messages to go to a different email box so they don't clutter up the real messages that need to be worked.
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You can add any headers you want to Mail, with the defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders command in Terminal. However, it is easy to get it wrong, particularly if you already have added headers, so I would suggest you try Cricket's Applescripts for Mail, which includes one for doing it.
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if you don't enter anything... it collapses those fields to just one when you go back to the To, Subj, or Body
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but the point is trivial because as you type you have to scroll anyway which gives you back that screen space so precious to you...
so why not just scroll... is it necessary to see who is in the header fields at all times? i don't know of a reason why...

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if you don't enter anything... it collapses those fields to just one when you go back to the To, Subj, or Body
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but the point is trivial because as you type you have to scroll anyway which gives you back that screen space so precious to you...
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Setting From field in Mail

I recently changed from cable (optonline.net) to DSL (verizon.net), because the price went from about $50/month (cable) to $20/month (DSL).
The email address I’d like to advertise to the world is one based on a university. It’s not a real address, but a forwarding address that I can change when my real address changes.
I inserted my university email address in:
Mail->Preferences->Accounts->Account Information->Email Address
The above worked with the cable provider, but does not work with the DSL provider. Here I get the error message:
Cannot send message using the server version
The sender address was rejected by the server outgoing.yahoo.verizon.net.
Select a different outgoing mail server from the list below or click Try Later to leave the message in your Outbox until it can be delivered.
Sending from: David Kallman <email removed>
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Reply To -> email removed
This works sometimes, but not always. The Reply To field seems to be ignored by some mailers.
Note: This message:
1. duplicates http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2034538 with more details
2. replaces http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9600146 by moving the same question to the Mail forum.
I'll close the two items above.

I am having the same problem but with a twist. I have about 5 different email accounts for both business and personal emails. I want my business mail to look like it is sent from my different domain name addresses and not the imap gmail account to which it is forwarded before I download it into Apple Mail.
Previously somehow the old Gmail pop account set up under Tiger allowed me to permanently change the From To field but now I have to change it each time.
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I tried changing the "Send new mail from" under Mail Preferences Composing but that affects all my outgoing mail not just a particular account.
Has this changed with Leopard?
In case you are wondering why I don't forget the forwarding thru Gmail, I can't because now so many of my emails have been going out with the gmail email address instead, that I might miss mail if I did. I also needed to switch from Gmail Pop to Imap to be able to see all my emails with an iphone and 2 macbooks. And Mobileme just adds another complication in the middle.

Manually change the "sent from" field in mail

Hi there,
I have a MobileMe account set up in Mail but I would like my sent messages to appear as if they were sent from another email account (a non mobile me account).
Is there a way to do this ?
Thanks for helping !
Marc

You can fix this problem by adding an entry into a file on your mac. You have to add an alias, but manually so by editing this file below:
I finally found a solution. You can edit this file where USERNAME = users acutal account on the mac:
Close Mail.
Go to:
/Users/USERNAME/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/accounts.plist
Under this:
            <key>EmailAddresses</key>
            <array>
                <string>[email protected]</string>
            </array>
Type:
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Save version of file.
Open Mail.
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Okay, I've searched the preferences page and the FAQs. It's driving me crazy that when I access my web mail that all I see is the 'To' field and have to guess about who the emails are from. I'd insert a screenshot if I could because in all the pictures I've found online the 'From' field shows so I Really don't understand why it doesn't show up for me. Instead of 'From' I get 'To' which is pretty useless since all of the emails in my Inbox are to me. I suspect people aren't going to believe me so let me give further description- when I first log in and click on my mail I see the flagged column, the status column, the "To" column, the "Subject" column, the "Date" column, the attachment column and the action column. This is for my Inbox. Nowhere do I see the "From" column. Pretty useless. Very frustrating.
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Apple Mail "From:" Field Customization

I have several IMAP accounts in Apple Mail. One of them is a Gmail account that I use as a conduit account for work, so when I reply to messages or compose new mail, I would like it to display a specific address in the "From:" field, instead of selecting it every time (I added my work account to Mail as well, though I forward messages to my Gmail account). So, for example, my Gmail account is "[email protected]" and my work email is "[email protected]".
When I compose messages from the Gmail account I would like the "From:" field to display "[email protected]" instead of "[email protected]". I am able to set up Gmail web interface to do this, but have not been able to set up Apple Mail to do the same (aside from instructing it to send messages using my work server, instead of the Gmail server).
In Lion, Mail was able to specify that address if I was replying to a messages sent to "[email protected]" but would show "[email protected]" for every new message. In ML, even replying to a message sent to "[email protected]" shows "[email protected]" in the "From:" field.
Does anyone know how to instruct Mail to choose only "[email protected]" when replying or composing new messages?
Thanks for your help!

What you are describing is what is known as "articulation work". To quote Suchman, "'Articulation work' names the continuous efforts required in order to bring together discontinuous elements - of organizations, of professional practices, of technologies - into working configurations". That makes it sound better than it is.
Ideally, your non-profit needs a decent webhost like Dreamhost that can transparently integrate with Google Mail and make the whole problem go away.
asmystiq wrote:
I configured Mail to use the work SMTP server to send messages from the Gmail account.
This is what is known as e-mail spoofing.
In the web Gmail interface, everything works smoothly.
Yes. Google is known for ignoring laws and facilitating any kind of network traffic, legitimate or not, in order to track activity and build value for its advertising business.
In Mail, even if the message was sent to [email protected], Mail replies show up with [email protected] in the "From:" field
Yes. That is the way it is supposed to work.
I also set up a rule for redirecting Sent messages to Gmail and moving the original copies to Trash on the work account. In Lion, all was well and the replies indicated [email protected] in the "From:" field and when I manually applied the rule to the Sent messages, they were sent to the Gmail account.
That's the "articulation work" in action.
I've looked at some of the discussion you linked (thank you for that) and found it enlighening, though I am not done reading all of it yet.
There are a number of different issues going on. Modern e-mail is extraordinarily complicated.
What I do now is not forward work email and keep the daily workflow focused on the Inbox of the [email protected] account, which handles replies appropriately. I then set up a rule to redirect any mail from the work account that is over a day old to the Gmail account. I then organize it on the web interface (which is not optimal, but cuts down my time spent on the web interface from "always" to once daily or so).
You could probably improve that by creating folders in GMail from within Apple Mail. Once you move an old message from the work server to GMail where you have more room, you can have additional rules to move it around within GMail.
The only real, definitive solution is to have more room for e-mail. You should contact your system administrator and suggest switching to GMail or Microsoft's version. Everyone hates dealing with e-mail. That is why these transparent e-mail services are so popular. Once it gets setup, all the magic happens in the name servers and all anyone ever sees is "work.org". Plus, you will likely gain some additional functionality that Microsoft Exchange supports that older systems do not.
In the interim, the best solution is to show the "Reply-to:" field and put your "[email protected]" address in there. Replies will be directed to that address but you will still have to move everything around after receipt. You should be able to configure your "work.org" e-mail system to automatically forward all you rmail to the GMail account. Combined with "Reply-to:", that is about as good as it is going to get.
If you need more clarification, let me know. Though I think that ML is behaving in a way that is not convenient and I don't see a way to create a hack to fix it. It seems like it would be an easy feature to add, but who knows what Apple folks are thinking...
What you have described is e-mail spoofing and Apple doesn't support that. No legitimate internet e-mail provider should support it. If Google does, then that is Google's problem. Most other e-mail servers would not allow that and that is why Apple doesn't support it. And, in general, Apple software is simply not very amenable to "hacks".
I have though about writing an Apple Mail plugin to automatically add a "Reply-to:" to certain e-mail messages. It will be a few months before I get time for that, so don't hold your breath.

Can I have Mail format the "From" field based on my Address book entries?

I have most of my contacts in my address book, but Mail still displays the "From" field in the message list pane with the normal email address header.
Here's an example:
User A emails me a message from this address:
"User A" <[email protected]>
In my Address Book, I have User A's info as this:
First Name: Bob
Last Name: Marley
Email Address: [email protected]
In Mail, though, the "From" field in the message list view still says ...
User A
... when I want it to say ...
Bob Marley
Does that make sense? How can I do this?

All you need is a plug adaptor, if required. Apple sells an adapter kit:
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