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the message you're composing, tap the Cc/Bcc, From line; tap From; and then
tap the address you want to use.
Unfortunately, as cool as this feature is, many services don't support it. You can't
do this with iCloud (although iCloud accounts can use aliases, which I discuss
generally in
Use iCloud Aliases
,
and more specifically for iOS 7 in
Use iCloud Ali-
ases in iOS 7
), nor with Exchange, AOL, or Yahoo accounts. It doesn't work with
Gmail accounts either,
unless
you have the account set up as a standard IMAP
account, which is possible in iOS 7 but not Mavericks (see
Set Up Gmail as a
Regular IMAP Account
). Even then, you'll want to be sure you've already set up
the alternative address(es) on Gmail's Web site in Settings > Accounts > Send
Mail As.
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Automatic sending account choice:
Mail notices which account you usually
use for sending email to each person, automatically defaulting to that account for
that recipient—unless you're in an account-specific mailbox. (As before, when
creating a new message from within an account-specific mailbox, Mail always
sends from that account.)
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Flag style:
In Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars, under the Mail heading, a
Flag Style option lets you choose whether message flags appear as colored circles
or as actual flag icons.
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Short names:
In Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars, under the Contacts
heading, a new Short Name option, when enabled, lets you select the way you
prefer names to appear—both in Mail and in Contacts. For example, you can
choose First Name Only or First Initial & Last Name; you can also turn on Prefer
Nicknames to display a person's nickname instead, if one is entered in Contacts.
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Removed features:
A few minor capabilities available in the iOS 6 version of
Mail are now gone. For example, you can no longer specify how many messages
to download at one time. However, it's difficult to determine how many mes-
sages Mail
does
download at once, since the count of downloaded messages in
each mailbox has also disappeared!
