Apple Mail AKA Hides-Best-Things
After almost getting used to Mail not supporting identities, today I finally found a way to use them too. Mail supports an infinite number of alias-sets consisting of E-mail and full name. To make Mail actually provide this feature you have to create them manually though. Here's and example entry in ~Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist:
<key>MailAccounts</key> <array> <dict> <key>AccountName</key> <string>User@example.com</string> <key>AccountPath</key> <string>~/Library/Mail/IMAP-user@example.com</string> <key>AccountType</key> <string>IMAPAccount</string> <key>EmailAddresses</key> <array> <string>user@example.com</string> </array> <key>EmailAliases</key> <array> <dict> <key>alias</key> <string>alias1@example.com</string> <key>name</key> <string>Name 1</string> </dict> <dict> <key>alias</key> <string>alias2@example.com</string> <key>name</key> <string>Name 2</string> </dict> </array> <key>FullUserName</key> <string>Official Name</string> </dict> </array>
By the way if you only need alias email addresses you can do that directly per user interface. Just put all the email addresses you need into the *Email Address" field separated by commas.
