Email Aliases on the iPhone
One feature seemingly missing from the iPhone mail client is the ability to send messages from an alias identity on a mail account. Suppose you have main@example.com, but all mailing list emails are sent to mailinglist@example.com, which is an alias for main@example.com. If you want to send an email from mailinglist@example.com, you would have to set up a second account, which would duplicate the main@example.com account emails (which is messy, in my opinion).
Now, Apple seem to have (perhaps inadvertantly) managed to enable a way of having proper aliases in iPhone OS 3.0. Essentially you need to create a list of email aliases seperated by commas in the “Address” field of the IMAP Account Information. This must be done after the account has been created with the 1 main email address, or it complains about being an invalid address. Once the account has been set up with the main email address, create a new note. In this note, type out the list of email aliases you want, starting with a comma:
highlight and copy this text to the clipboard.
Then go to “Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars” then choose your email account. In the address field, paste the copied text after the existing main address and save the changes. Now when you compose an email, if you click on the “From:” field, you should have an option of your main address, or any of the aliases you created.
This does not work for me. I get as far as the settings and my Mobile Me email account address is greyed out.I have no ability to access. What am I missing here? It will not allow me to type or paste in the alias.
I haven’t tried this with a mobileme account; Try setting the mobileme account up as “other” and enter the imap details there.
Hi
Here’s how I got it to work in gmail, (this may work for mobile me).
1. Take a note of all the settings, then remove your account.
2. Then go to “Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Add Account > Other” (be sure to select other not gmail or mobile me as they gives you restricted settings to tweak).
You will have to fill the details of servers etc, manually, but once set up you can then follow the instructions above, and it works great.
Finally I can sleep…..
I’ve tried using your method Jud, it let’s add the aliases in the address field.
However when I create a new email, I do not hqve the “From” field…
EDIT for my last post: Forget what I’ve just said, I’ve rebooted my iPhone and it now works like a charm.
Thanks for your help.
I tried this method and also found that the “address” field in my account was greyed out. Am I missing a step? Any way around this?
I tried this and unfortunately when I go into the account info, the address portion is “greyed out” and I can find no way to paste the alias info in. Did I miss a step or is there another way around?
I would love to be able to utilize alias addresses when e-mailing from my iPhone.
Sorry for the duplication. I checked back after having submitted originally, and no longer saw my post. I thought it had been erased for some reason. So, I tried again. Again, sorry for the dup.
This worked great! Thank you so much! You don’t know what I owe you for this…
Thanks for your helpful post.
For those who have setup their MobileMe email account on their iPhone as “Other” to get their email aliases to show up in the from field using this approach; if you do it this way then did you lose your ability to sync your calendar, contacts, etc.?
Thanks for this. It was a big help
This works great on the iPad – just what I was looking for. Thanks so much!