Multiple Email Addresses for iPad
For a while, I forwarded all my email addresses to a single Gmail account. It’s great because you get a unified inbox to collect mail from multiple email addresses that you can check on any device. One caveat has been that Mail on the iPhone and iPad won’t let you send email from multiple addresses living under one Gmail account. This means that even though you can receive messages from secondary accounts, you can only reply from your main Gmail address.
I’ve tried many work-arounds but have been unsuccessful until I came across a website called ModerNerd. The author managed to get around this in a way that works great on the iPad and iPhone.
To set up multiple addresses for the iPad:
1. Open the Settings app.
2. Tap on Mail, Contacts, Calendars → Add Account…
3. Tap on Other (NOT Gmail or Google Mail)
4. Tap on Add Mail Account and enter your full name, your Gmail address, your password, and the word ‘Gmail’ in the description. Then tap Save.
5. You should now be in the ‘Enter Your Account Information’ screen.
Use the following information for the appropriate fields:
Incoming Mail Server
Host Name: imap.gmail.com
User Name: your full Gmail address
Password: your Gmail password
Outgoing Mail Server
Host Name: smtp.gmail.com
User Name: your full Gmail address
Password: your Gmail password
6. Scroll back up and tap the address field once to place the cursor at the end of your Gmail address. Start typing your secondary email addresses that you’d like to be able to send email from, each separated by a comma.
To type a comma on the iPad, look for a button on your keyboard that looks like this [.?123] then the button that looks like [#+=]. The comma will appear in the top right of the keyboard, to the left of the backspace key.
7. Tap Save when you are done entering your secondary addresses.
8. To check it’s worked, open Mail, browse to your Gmail account, and create a new message. Tap the “Cc/Bcc, From:” field to open it up, then tap the “From:” field. You should see a picker overlay containing all of the email addresses you just entered.
For instructions on creating multiple secondary addresses for the iPhone, check out ModerNerd.com.
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