Detailed Email client question, opinions needed (long)

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Joey Cupcakes wrote:
-omission of the option to not include an account in the Send & Receive schedule. This was very useful as several of my accounts really represent aliases of my main email account on my server (such accounts being set up with the same login info as the main), allowing me to easily reply from "different" addresses.

Joey Cupcakes wrote:
It looks like the Act-On plug in will handle many of the issues. I've figured out a parial workaround for the multiple accounts issue (Apple will not let you have 2 accounts that employ the same login credentials...)

Apple Mail does have a solution for this (at least in 10.6.8), it's not obvious, but works very well.

In the Account Information, for the "Email Address", you can have multiple addresses associated with a single physical mailbox, just use a comma between the addresses.

Eg: foo1@bar.com, foo2@bar.com, foo3@bar.com

For sending messages, all of these addresses will be available in the From: popup menu.

And it's smart when you reply to a message, it will set the sender to the email address that was in the TO: field.

I use this a lot, I have a catch-all mailbox for my domain, and I give out unique email addresses to websites that require one. Usually I never need to send an email using those unique addresses, but in the rare cases that I do, I just add them to the list of email addresses for that catch-all mailbox account.