[MlMt] masked icloud email address

[aisrael]

Dear all, thank you for your suggestions. After various trials and 
errors (and readings), it appears I may able to use the iCloud account, 
with 2 caveats  :

1) based on the link provided by Henry, this can only be used with Mail, 
Safari and Apple Pay (but not third party apps). As Mailmate is not 
specifically discussed, it may be worth trying (with a more recent 
version of Mailmate with the SMTP picker, as indicated by Bill (I 
currently use 5964)).

2) this only works with the email address attached to my iCloud account. 
  I have a second account (that would more specifically need masked 
addresses), where this strategy would not work, if I understood 
correctly.

I am left with a series of commercial apps (Firefox Relay, Addy.io, 
SimpleLogin, Polycred,…) the free versions of which do not allow to 
send emails from the masked address (but the paid versions that allow 
this cost 1-2$/month, so maybe I’ll try these).

Alain

PS : Henry, you write “ I have a masked sending account” : what is 
it?



On 7 Dec 2024, at 22:10, mailmate at businessdatasystems.co.nz wrote:

> On 8 Dec 2024, at 5:50, aisrael wrote:
>
>> I am trying to use iCloud-based masked email addresses to hide my 
>> actual email address when “talking” to some web services : I have 
>> 2 questions : 1) how can I send mails from this new address using 
>> Mailmate (the From item seems to be limited to the address of my 2 
>> accounts) 2) (not Mailmate-related) can I use this strategy to 
>> replace an email address which is different from the email address 
>> registered to my Apple account?
>
> I believe it is much easier than you are making it.
>
> You simply reply to the mail using your iCloud account. It figures 
> keeps track of your alias addresses and it rewrites the email headers 
> to ensure that the correct alias is used in the "from" header. The web 
> service or person at the other end never gets to see your iCloud email 
> address. They always see the masked alias.
>
> Malcolm
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