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How to Make Alias work?

The From email address isn’t working for me. In Preferences, Accounts, under Email Address, I added my alias, but that email address still isn’t showing up in the From, when I send an email.

What am I missing? How do I make this work?

More info: I bought my name, my domain, let’s say: larry@larrysmith.com

But I’m using gmail as my actual provider, with an email address of let’s say: larrysmith6789@gmail.ccom

Emails sent to larry@larrysmith.com get forwarded to larrysmith6789@gmail.com

That works.

In Mail, I want to send out my emails with a From address: larry@larrysmith.com

I want people to think my email is my name/domain that I bought.

I want to give my email to people as: larry@larrysmith.com

I want people to receive emails from me as larry@larrysmith.com

What's happening now is that my gmail is showing as my From address.

I've added larry@larrysmith.com as my Email address in my Account.

The reason is that I want to keep my same email address for life. In the past, I’ve changed email providers, so my email changed every few years.

This was working, I was sending email From larry@larrysmith.com, then my MacBook stopped working, I bought another used one, put my existing hard drive in my new/used Mac, but some of the settings didn’t stay.

Using Mail 10.3, Mac OS 10.12.6

Thanks for any help you can give!

Larry

Posted on Jul 2, 2019 10:00 PM

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Urquhart1244

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Posted on Jul 3, 2019 4:31 AM

For me, it works when I add additional addresses to:

Mail.app: menu Mail﹥Preferences﹥Accounts﹥[select an account that you use for sending (SMTP)]﹥Account Information (tab)﹥Email Address (drop down menu)﹥Edit Email Addresses (last menu option)﹥[+]﹥[enter address, enter corresponding name]﹥OK

Then the From line in a newly composed email message becomes a drop down menu when hovering over that area, where you can select alternative From addresses.

This is different from menu Mail﹥Accounts﹥ !

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