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Automatic Reply-To Address in Mail
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How do you configure an email account in Apple Mail so that every message sent from that account has a different Reply-To email address than the email address of that account? I believe a lot of Windows email clients have that option and call it a "Return Address", so I would be surprised if Apple Mail didn't have a similar option. I find it annoying to always have to type " [email protected]" in the Reply-To field every time I send a message from " [email protected]". Thanks!
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Bump. Perhaps the title of the thread is confusing and I should have called it "Default Reply-To Address in Sent Mail".
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So I guess this means there is no way to do this? I find that odd...
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Originally Posted by jszrules
anyone?
The email address field in the account settings is your reply-to, AFAIK.
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I don't think that this feature is available, remember Mail is a basic 'consumer level' email app.
This shouldn't really be done anyway. Lots of corporate anti-spam filters will block emails that originate from a different address than the stated replay address, unless that address has been added to the 'exemption' list.
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Originally Posted by Mediaman_12
I don't think that this feature is available, remember Mail is a basic 'consumer level' email app.
This shouldn't really be done anyway. Lots of corporate anti-spam filters will block emails that originate from a different address than the stated replay address, unless that address has been added to the 'exemption' list.
Not true... Any SMTP server will accept the "Reply-to" header, it's a perfectly legitimate header that is part of the RFC. This is not spoofing, this is utilizing a legitimate header.
I take what I said back, there is no place to set a reply-to in Mail, just the "From" address (which is used as the reply-to address in the absence of an overriding reply-to header).
I'd consider using Thunderbird, it has a whole plethora of features that OS X Mail doesn't have, it's a pretty sweet and extensible email client. I can't think of any feature present in OS X Mail that doesn't exist in Thunderbird, with the exception of Smart Folders.
I wish that that OS X Mail would allow you to pick what email folders you want to subscribe to. Its syncing/caching can only be disabled or enabled for the entire account - PITA. I also prefer Engimail over the OS X Mail PGP add-on.
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Originally Posted by jszrules
How do you configure an email account in Apple Mail so that every message sent from that account has a different Reply-To email address than the email address of that account? I believe a lot of Windows email clients have that option and call it a "Return Address", so I would be surprised if Apple Mail didn't have a similar option. I find it annoying to always have to type " [email protected]" in the Reply-To field every time I send a message from " [email protected]". Thanks!
Permanently add Reply To headers in Mail.app <-- a hint from "cricket", who is on the Mail.app team
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Originally Posted by Mithras
Very cool. I wish Apple would learn a little bit from the Mozilla team in making Safari and Mail more extensible, I often find these apps too inflexible for these sorts of reasons. It sucks that the only way to add a feature like this is with some arcane hack like this.
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Well, Mail.app plugins can do quite a bit, but I agree that it'd be nice if Apple offered a stable API to code against. Still, the current Mail plugin world is pretty rich, and I'm sure someone could pretty quickly write a Reply-To plugin if there were enough demand.
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Thanks for the replies. I would prefer to avoid this "arcane hack", so hopefully someone can write a Mail Reply-To plug-in or hopefully we will find out tomorrow at the WWDC that Apple has addressed this issue with Mail 3.0, haha.
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Clinically Insane
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Originally Posted by Mithras
Well, Mail.app plugins can do quite a bit, but I agree that it'd be nice if Apple offered a stable API to code against. Still, the current Mail plugin world is pretty rich, and I'm sure someone could pretty quickly write a Reply-To plugin if there were enough demand.
Perhaps, but the whole SIMBL/Bundle thing seems pretty awkward, and certainly no where as easy as it is to install an extension in Firefox or Thunderbird.
It's a pain in the ass that whenever Safari updates, add-ons like PithHelmet and Saft often break. If Apple sat down and thought about how to best design this stable API, they would probably produce a better, more module result anyway.
We could certainly also have this conversation WRT other Apple apps and OS X itself (see my other thread on this).
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