Using .Mac email aliases

I have sucessfully set up my .mac alias (using .mac mail).
First make a note of your primary account information:
Username & password
Incoming mail server
Outgoing mail server
Ports etc...
You will be applying these settings to your new account.
On iPhone go to:
* Settings/mail/add account/choose "other".
* Sellect type: imap
Name the account (name you want to appear in "from" field of email).
Type in your .mac alias address.
Description: Name of mailbox (i.e. personal, work).
Incoming mail server (enter info from your primary account):
* Host Name: mail.example.com (or mail.mac.com)
* Your primary account username
* Your primary account password
Outgoing mail server (enter info from your primary account)
In my case, for out going mail server I am using:
smtp.att.yahoo.com, port: 465
My username & password
Now, on my iPhone mail, I can select which account to send & receive from.
Personal or work.
Works for me, hope it does for you!

A .Mac email alias is not valid for usage in iChat. Use an AIM screen name or trial .Mac account if you want a new name.
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Hi Peterpants
Dont think you can use aliases, but you can get a free iChat account here.
http://www.mac.com/1/ichat.html

I cannot find my .mac email aliases!

I cannot find my former .mac email aliases - one of which I use for business and is on all my business stationery. I don't want to change it if I don't have to. I don't see it in the list - only the new @me address. It was my understanding that all my aliases would remain intact. Help!

Go into your account at icloud.com.
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AC

How to use .mac email address after upgrade to iCloud.

HI
Just wondering the following.
I have an old mac.com email address.. Can I still use it in any capacity? What I am thinking is to be able to have an email sent to my mac.com email address forwarded to my gmail account. Is this possible and if so how?
Thanks and I look forward to your reply.
...Bruce

Glenn Leblanc wrote:
I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do. Do you want the .mac address forwarded to gmail and not the .me address?
If you use iCloud in Mail, all iCloud mail will include the main address and all aliases. They show in the same account, but with the different addresses.
If you use the main forwarding address in the general preferences of Mail at the iCloud site, then all messages to all iCloud addresses will forward to gmail.
If you only want to forward one of the addresses, go to the rules tab and create a rule to forward the .mac address to gmail.
You said: I am using gmail on my iphone/ipad so I do not need to sync my mail.
     Do you not want the .mac or .me account on your phone and iPad?
You said: What I am trying to achieve here is just to have a mac.com account. My concern is I do not want to get it confused with the me.com address. Given that is it possible to have a mac.com email account that will work?
Where are you using the .me account and what for? How do you want to separate them so you don't get confused? If you only want a .mac account, what happened to gmail?
I'm sorry. It appears there is a minor translation barrier. I am not understanding what you need to accomplish and I'm getting confused.
Maybe you could explain as simple as possible all what you want to show in Mail on the computer, iPhone, and iPad and what you want to sync together.
Glenn I am sorry for the confusion. The joys of email.
I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do. Do you want the .mac address forwarded to gmail and not the .me address?
     Yes I want to forward the .mac address to my gmail account The reason I have the .me address is because Apple forced this on me when I signed up for the icloud when it first came out. They would not let me use another account. I would have prefered the .mac account but as I said I had no choice.
You said: I am using gmail on my iphone/ipad so I do not need to sync my mail.
     Do you not want the .mac or .me account on your phone and iPad?
    I do not want either account on my iPhone or iPad for email. I use my gmail account for my email. I have gmail defined as an exchange account on the iPhone/iPad in order to push email to my devices. I just want to have a .mac email address that people can send emails to. My intention is to forward the .mac emails to my gmail.
So I guess my problem boils down to how I can have the mac.com address (which is defined on Apple) forward any emails to my gmail account.
I hope I am making this clearer for you to understand. Maybe I am trying to do something that is not possible? Maybe I am making this more complicated than it really i?. The concept is simple. Apple just makes it difficult to do it.
I look forward to hearing back from you.

.Mac email aliases

I've been enjoying the iPhone, but I haven't been able to solve this one issue... even phone support couldn't answer the question:
I have several aliases in my .Mac email account. Friends and family know my root account, I have an alias that I use when subscribing to websites, another for co-workers, etc.
iPhone RECEIVES all the mail for the aliases, but when I SEND mail, it always shows that it's from the root account. How can I choose which alias to put in the "from" field when sending mail from iPhone?
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I have several old email aliases with the @mac.com name. None of these are showing up in iCloud when I log in via a web browser. I only see the following:
The recommended method of adding/editing aliases indicates that I have no aliases (as shown above), but I know I do and I test them and they still work (i.e. I can send emails to those aliases and they show up both when I'm in iCloud email via the browser or in my email client on the Mac).
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Using Mac email program with Web-based email

I'm wondering if there is a way to use the Mac email program with Web-based email (like Gmail, etc).
If this is possible then how can I set up my system.
Thanks much.

Yes you can use gmail using Mail software.
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How can I access messages sent to .mac email aliases?

First off, I apologize if this has been addressed earlier. It appears that search is disabled right now and I don't have time to sift through the entire discussion.
Has anyone determined a way to read email sent to a .mac alias through the iPhone? I'm only seeing messages sent to my primary email address. When I try to add the alias as a separate account on the phone, it is rejected by the mail.mac.com server.
Thanks!

I have sucessfully set up my .mac alias (using .mac mail).
First make a note of your primary account information:
Username & password
Incoming mail server
Outgoing mail server
Ports etc...
You will be applying these settings to your new account.
On iPhone go to:
* Settings/mail/add account/choose "other".
* Sellect type: imap
Name the account (name you want to appear in "from" field of email).
Type in your .mac alias address.
Description: Name of mailbox (i.e. personal, work).
Incoming mail server (enter info from your primary account):
* Host Name: mail.example.com (or mail.mac.com)
* Your primary account username
* Your primary account password
Outgoing mail server (enter info from your primary account)
In my case, for out going mail server I am using:
smtp.att.yahoo.com, port: 465
My username & password
Now, on my iPhone mail, I can select which account to send & receive from.
Personal or work.
Works for me, hope it does for you!
G5,G4 iMac, 12" Powerbook, MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.10)

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I have an article here that can explain what is happening and how to change the viewing of PDF's in Mail:
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I didn't renew my MobileMe account and now Mail won't take my password. Do I have to have MobileMe to use Mail or could there be another problem?

Hi,
Yes you do.
Dot Mac or mobile me is a service for which you pay. Once you stop paying you lose that service. You try and contact Apple to see if your account can be re-activated - I would not out much hope for this. Or you could choose another mail provider.
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How can I send from multiple email aliases & names?

Hi, I wish to achieve the same result as the OP at http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=112689 and by following the useful guides in that thread, am able to achieve what I want... sort of.
Basically, I have one POP account/mailbox, and only one.
However, I use 3 email aliases for different work purposes, e.g.:
Fred Blogs <[email protected]>
Dr F Blogs <[email protected]>
The Surgery <[email protected]>
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This works fine as far as it goes, and I get a drop down when creating new mail, however, all 3 'aliases' come from the same person's 'Name' - the 1 name I entered in the mailbox preferences in Mail.
No, what I need to achieve is to be able to send email from the 3 different names as well as email addresses, not just 3 different email addresses all with the same name.
This was a doddle under Outlook, you just create 3 accounts with the same SMTP server, but set 2 of them not to receive email (otherwise you'd end up with 3 lots of each incoming email from that 1 shared mailbox).
Mail however is not having any of it, and won't let me create duplicate accounts. I have even tried adding the full name in the email address field of settings, separated by commas: Fred Blogs <[email protected]>, Dr F Blogs <[email protected]>, The Surgery <[email protected]>. That didn't work either.
How can I achieve what used to be quite a simple process on my PC? I can't be the only person who uses one unified mailbox account, but sends from different aliases?
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Thanks, but the issue occurs when I am trying to set up the 2nd account and get to the Incoming Mail Server Page.
Because I am using the same Incoming Mail Server and User Name as the 1st account, when I click Continue it reports:
/!\ The account "Account 1" already has this hostname and username.
It then won't let me continue. Now it sounds like you have the same setup, so do you have the same hostname and username in all your multiple accounts? :-S
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Mail Crashes with .Mac email.

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Process: Mail [553]
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Identifier: com.apple.mail
Version: 3.1 (914)
Build Info: Mail-9140000~1
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [198]
Date/Time: 2008-02-08 10:28:24.118 +0000
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Report Version: 6
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2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x96e9264e CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 3166
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You've signed up for a free trial of [.Mac|http://www.apple.com/dotmac>.<~~ click link) and it has expired.
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