On iOS, this feature is hidden a little deeper, but itвЂ™s still pretty easy to set up.

(On OS X, Mail seems to be smart enough that when you reply to a message it automatically sets the From line to the same address the original message was sent to.) iOS Now, when you send an email, place the cursor over the From line and choose from the drop-down menu which address youвЂ™d like the email to come from.

Choosing вЂњCustomвЂќ from the Alias dropdown above Email Address makes the field editable, but even after adding the aliases, I had no luck sending email from them via iCloudвЂ™s outgoing mail server. ( Note: If youвЂ™re using an iCloud account on OS X Yosemite, you may notice that Email Address is un-editable, showing up as a grayed-out field. If youвЂ™re using a standard IMAP, POP, or Exchange account, all you should need to do is find the field listed as Email Address, and add a comma followed by the other address. On OS X, launch Mail, go to Mail > Preferences, and select the Accounts pane. However, with a little bit of tweaking, you can set up Mail on OS X and iOS to let you customize the From line of your emails so that you can send from any of those aliases. While itвЂ™s easy enough to receive messages from all those disparate addresses, when I reply to them from that central mailbox, it exposes that main accountвЂ“one which I generally donвЂ™t want to throw around. the Six Colors email listed at the end of every post). Many of my email addresses, however, are not full-fledged mailboxes, but simply aliases that forward email to a central account (i.e. The number of email addresses I maintain only slightly exceeds the number of versions of Star Wars that I own. Warning: This story has not been updated in several years and may contain out-of-date information. Add email aliases in Mail on OS X and iOS

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