Use different names for different email addresses in mail

Is it possible to somehow override the name that is in the 'full name' field under account settings in mail.app? I send mail from multiple different email addresses all through one enabled account, which is a mobile me account. I use gmail's outgoing smtp server to accomplish this.
I don't want every email address that I send from to say my full name, but there is not an option to specify different names since it is all one account. Using Mail v3.6
Any ideas?

canes1086 wrote:
Thanks VK. Don't really want to do this though because if I have one mobileme account that multiple accounts forward to, I get push to my iphone for all. Other ideas?
no. I don't think there is any other way to do it with Mail.

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