Multiple identities in one account with Apple Mail.app (OS X and iOS)
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.