Comments on: One .Mac Account to Rule Them All

By: kierra

kierra — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:15:39 +0000

hi.i love this

By: John C. McAlinden Jr.

John C. McAlinden Jr. — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:02:10 +0000

I have an AOL account and I would like to get and send my e_mail through the Mail program that comes with the mac. because of its flexibility to save Email in folders on my computer and use the phone book to send group emails and to automatically save E-mail info from people to my Address book This may be posable using AOL. however I do not know how to do it. Any advice that you can offer will be a big help thank you in advance.I am reachable through jmwheels@aol.com

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:28:19 +0000

Perhaps I’m missing the point of this article….

I have 3 .Mac email addresses, and in Mail.app, each shows up as a “child” inbox within a “parent” inbox called “Inbox.” Normally, I see all 3 inboxes, and clicking on either displays the mail for that account. However, at will I can click the disclosure triangle of the “parent” Inbox, and — instantly — the 3 accounts are displayed as 1.

So I don’t understand the need for the method described, here.

By: Geir

Geir — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:47:05 +0000

I really don’t fancy doing it this way. Main reason is .mac is too slow when taking this to the web. And I also have these problems with having to change e-mail senders all the time.

You can in fact use Gmail the same way, and Gmail is much faster, especially when you travel in countries where the speed is slooooow.

By: brian fox

brian fox — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:45:01 +0000

You may want to check out this plugin: SignatureProfiler. LEts you specify outgoing email names as well as signatures.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/31015

By: brian fox

brian fox — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:34:06 +0000

Actually “Regular” IMAP accounts in mail can use multiple email addresses that are comma separated. Mail has a preset for .Mac that doesn’t include that feature, but you can simply add a new account to your Mail using “IMAP” instead of “.Mac” as the email type.

The outgoing server you use doesnt really matter much since your recipient really looks at your “From” address.

By: Joshua Parker

Joshua Parker — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:58:10 +0000

Thanks Michael for your comments. Actually it is both smtp.gmail and smtp.googlemail. However, both of them should work whether you use google apps or gmail. Also, there is a correction that I hope will be changed. You will need to choose a smtp server in the “Account Information” tab. Otherwise, your signatures will not be saved to the account. Moreover, this does not hinder the drop down list of identities. Your identities will still populate.

By: Michael Mistretta

Michael Mistretta — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:51:39 +0000

BTW, it’s smtp.gmail.com

By: Michael Mistretta

Michael Mistretta — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:33:27 +0000

Thank you for this. I’m doing it right now.