Configuring Apple Mail with Gmail Aliases

Solution 1:

This worked for me:

1. Mail->Preferences
2. Select the G Suites email account
3. In "Account Information" tab, click "Email address" and choose "Edit Email Addresses..."
4. Click "+" and add the second alias email address. If it is setup properly in G-Suites it works in Apple Mail.

Solution 2:

None of the other solutions worked for me right now with Apple Mail 9.3 on OS X 10.11.4. Just to make sure, my situation is as follows:

• I have a primary email address [email protected] as a Google Apps account
• I added a domain alias otherdomain.com to that account
• I want to send from [email protected] and have the receiver see this in the "from:" field (notice that this is slightly more complicated than in the original question, but includes the original question's case!)

After a lot of experimenting, this did work (both parts required, it seems).

1. On the Gmail end:

   • For the primary email address [email protected], I went to Gmail online, then (under the top right tool icon) Settings > Account.
   • There I clicked: "Add another email address you own".
   • In the window popping up, I entered my (same) name and, under "Email address", the full alternative [email protected]
   • I left "Treat as an alias." unchecked.
   • Clicking the "Next step>>" button, I left the default top selection (the one that says "easier to set up")
   • I saved this.
   • (Back in the main Accounts screen, I checked "Reply from the same address the message was sent to", but that doesn't seem to be relevant to the root problem we are trying to solve here)

Using "Compose" still in Gmail online, I was able to change the from field to [email protected] and confirm that the receiver saw this as the "from:" field (as well as in the raw mail data).

2. Now in Mail, in the settings for [email protected] I just added an alias in the "Alias:" field right under "Description:". Now Mail shows the alternative email address in the From field when composing emails in Mail, too, and the recipient sees [email protected] as the true sender (checked in the raw mail data again).

Notice that without the Gmail modification from Step 1, adding an alias to Mail just resulted in an additional line "X-Google-Original-From: [email protected]", which Mail wouldn't recognize as a sender in any form.

Solution 3:

You need to configure these as 2 separate accounts in Mail. For some reason, to get it to work you will need to add the alias as an IMAP account rather than the standard Gmail account.

When you authenticate for the alias, you will need to use the actual/original email address, not the alias email, in the authentication settings.

I've been using this setup without a problem for many years with several different accounts, without problems.

Solution 4:

I know this is a 4 month old question, but I wanted to add that if you're using your own domain with Gmail (and you've configured your aliases in Gmail settings) then there is another solution.

Simple open the account in Apple Mail, and in the email address box add as many addresses as you want separated with a comma. e.g. [email protected],[email protected] etc.

Solution 5:

In Mail Version 14.0 (3654.100.0.2.22) it's very simple:

1. Launch Mail and in top menu bar go to Mail > Preferences...
2. Click on your added Google account
3. In "Account Information" tab click "Email addresses" drop-down select and click "Edit Email Addresses..." to add all aliases and names you've already added in your gmail settings (all settings) > "Accounts" tab > "Send mail as:" then "Add another email address".

I have tested the above solution and it's working perfect / sending emails as my alias.