Rudkin On Linux, Mac and Tech

Remember Steve Jobs this way, in his own words: “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

For sometime now I have wondered why Apple had missed out the ability to set multiple identities for email accounts in their Mail.app on Mac OS X and iOS.

Yesterday I had the need to send an email from a different identity on my iPad, so I could do this I simply changed the email address in the settings, sent the email and then changed it back. This seemed a little cumbersome so I did a bit of searching on DuckDuckGo.

I discovered this 5 year old article that detailed that all you need to do is enter a comma-separated list of addresses in the “Email Address”. How simple is that?

Having got this working in Mail.app in Mac OS X I wondered if this would work in iOS on my iPhone and iPad, and guess what, it does!

It was a little tricky to setup on my iPhone as the comma character does not appear on any of the soft keyboards when editing the email address. The work around was to cut cut & paste the comma character from another app!

I am not sure if this is a well known feature or not, but as I didn’t know about it I figured that I would share it.

I cannot believe I have not written a blog post for well over a year, so now I will make an effort to further document my life with tech.

About 6 months ago now I decided I needed to buy a new laptop as my Dell was a little worse for wear. Having succumbed to the draw of the iPhone and iPad I decided that I would invest in a nice 15″ MacBook Pro so I could continue life in the Apple ecosystem, something that the online community seems to despise but for me I am finding it a slick environment to wake up to.

Many of you may see this as turning my back on Linux, but that is not strictly the case. Having used my Mac for the last 6 months I have found the desktop experience rather polished and find that I’m more productive than I was using the Ubuntu desktop. So even though my day to day computing is now on OS X, I still maintain numerous servers that are all running various flavours of Ubuntu Linux so my future posts will probably have a server slant.

So lets get this started……