Is it possible to set an alias address as the default sending address? I am recommending eMclient for all my users who use Gmail and who are unhappy with the Gmail interface so this facility would be paramount in retaining them.
Hi, unfortunately this is not possible, but if you have the alias setup under your account it should automatically assign as the āfromā address when replying to an email sent to the alias.
To make the alias a default email, you would have to setup the alias as another account.
Thank you for understanding,
Paul.
I understand Paul the assignment of the correct address when replying which works very well. So far this is the best email client I have found for Gmail. I have lots of clients who complain about the Gmail interface and this fits the bill almost perfectly. Many of my users will open a Gmail account to manage many accounts but still want to use their own personalised account as the default not the Gmail account. Could this be a feature for the paid version? It would make this app the perfect client for Gmail with itās superb integration of calendars and tasks. Ah ā¦ then thereās conversation modeā¦ but Iāll leave that for another day to make it even more perfect. 
Hi again,
thank you for the suggestion and Iām glad you like the application so far, weāll consider adding this feature to future releases of eM Client.
Thank you,
Paul.
Many folks, including myself, have asked if this simple task can be performed āsetting an alias as defaultā and the common answer from tech support is āitās not possibleā. May I ask specifically WHY it is not possible? It is a highly requested feature that seems to have a simple solution. Unless Iām missing the technological challenges I can see no reason why EM Client wouldnāt want to satisfy their clients feature requests.
Thatās basically the same question why it isnāt yet possible to add a MRU (most recently used) list to the context menu item when moving messages to certain folders. I really miss this feature from Thunderbird and Iām be pretty sure it would not take many resources to implement this. Iāve done this many times myself in some of my own programs.
And to come back to your request: Iāve got about 200 aliases, yes that much because when registering a piece of software or at a new website, I always create an alias for this matter and add it to my real account (when receiving spam on one of them I simply can delete the alias address).
Now, when it comes to composing a new message, I choose one of those aliases and guess what? The list is so big that Iāve got to scroll up and down to find the appropriate alias. It would be a perfect addition to emClient if they would add a search-as-you-type feature to this list. It would be even better if this list is sorted alphabetically. If the list could be grouped by the main account and list their aliases below this would be terrific! OK - I was just dreamingā¦
Btw, the default aliases should be account based. This way each account can have its individual default alias. Even better would be an alias for each folder like many Thunderbird add-ons offer - but this would probably too much.
Michael
Has this been implemented yet?
I habitually use my ISP mail account for all outgoing mail (itās faster), but I donāt usually want replies sent back there.Ā Instead, by default I want them aliased to my other account.
I shouldnāt have to change this on every new email I create, thereās way too much potential for accidentally forgetting it.
Please allow an alias to be the default address for an account!
Iām brand new to eMClient. Iām trying it as an alternative to Thunderbird. Virtually the first feature I looked for was a replacement for the āreply-toā function. āAliasā almost does it but what I want, just LIKE the other correspondents in this thread, is the ability to flag an alias as a default.
Is it now possible? If not, will it become available? If not, is there some reason for this?
Ever in hope.
Richard
I donāt see a way to turn this on so Iām guessing itās still not possible. Hereās my vote to make it so.
I donāt see that ever changing as an alias is not really meant to be the default sending address, just a sometimes other address to use. Or, it really has a cool function in that any messages sent to that alias, use that as the sender address when replying.
Rather setup your account with that address as the main one and have the current one as an alias. 
Gary, thatās all very well if you want to use the same account to both send and receive, but if you want your default setting to send via one account but use a different account as the Reply address (e.g. you want to use your ISP to send out mail, but receive replies in your business email inbox), you NEED an alias to be your default setting.
You ISP has nothing to do with whatever email address you use.
No, but they usually give you a bundled email service.Ā What I meant was that you might want to use that to send outgoing mail (via smtp.yourisp.com), but receive replies on an unrelated email address.Ā I do this myself, because large emails send much faster over my ISPās SMTP server than over my main email account that has the address I want people to reply to.Ā (This can be especially important e.g. if you want to send an email quickly and then put your computer to sleep).Ā ā¦But the general point is that you may want to send via a different email service you receive on, and currently you have to remember to manually switch aliases on EVERY email you send, in order to do this.Ā There needs to be a way of making it the default.
You are referring to the reply-to address. You send on one address and receive the reply on another. That has nothing to do with either your ISP or an alias.
BTW an alias does not send using a different service. It uses the same SMTP server as the parent email account. Depending on the provider, and if an alias is setup on the server or not, the alias can become the reply-to address.
But, there is a solution. If your ISP allows relaying, this works just fine. If they donāt, then the alias does not work anyway as all you get is a work email that the receiver sees as coming from your personal address.
Setup your ISP email account then change the User Information to your work email address. Add your ISP email as the alias. Now all messages you send will come from your work address, (so that is the same as setting the alias as default) and if you want to send from your personal address, use the alias.
Hmm, it hadnāt occurred to me that I could set up the account information using an unrelated email address (as shown above) and still have it work correctly.Ā I might do that - itāll do what I want for messages I create in my ISP mail folder (though itās kind of an awkward hack, to be honest, since youāre deliberately putting wrong account information into the account settings).
But thereās still a problem:Ā if I remember right, eM client uses the default address _ļ»æfor the current account folder_ļ»æ.Ā So if Iām in my āworkā folder when I click āNew Emailā, or if I reply to an email sent to my work address (which is nearly all of them, by intention), itāll still default to sending via the work SMTP server, not via my ISP one.Ā What I want to be able to do is have the ā[email protected]ā alias for ā[email protected]ā be the default sender for email sent/replied from the āworkā account also (actually in my case I just want it as the global default so all outgoing email is sent through my ISPās SMTP, but other people may have more granular per-account needs).Ā Itās been a while since I played with it, but I believe youād need the ability to set an alias as the default address for an account in order to do this.Ā And I think itās not an uncommon thing to want to do, either!
Not a hack at all. The login name does not have to be the same as the email address. Usually that is so just so it is easier to manage the account, but not necessary. The login name does not even have to be an email address.
When creating a new message, eM Client uses the email address for whichever account folder you are in, or if you are in Local Folders, it uses the default account. Whichever account that is, it will use the SMTP settings you have supplied in the account settings. If you specify your work account to use the ISP SMTP, it will do that. That is the whole point of my screenshot above!!
The exception to this is when replying to a message. In that case eM Client will match the address the message was sent to with an account or alias in your account settings. Then it will use that address to send the reply regardless of which folder it is in.
Just get over it already. You cannot use an alias as a default SMTP address. That is not itās function.
Perhaps 97% of the emails I send are replies to previous emails (vs composing new ones from scratch).Ā So your exception is actually my 97% use-case.
I call it a āhackā, because to me, the account settings should always contain _ļ»æcorrect_ļ»æ information for the account, and if I want different behavior for SMTP, there should be aĀ _ļ»æseparate_ļ»æ way to specify that, rather than jiggering with the account settings.Ā (Iām a programmer, so Iām sensitive to issues like this; doing what you suggest could (a) break future functionality, and (b) means the real account settings need to be written down separately elsewhere, with a note saying how & why the eM client settings donāt match themā¦ itās very ugly).
If I were to change the SMTP part of my work account settings so that it sent via my ISP instead, I wouldnāt have the fallback of easily switching back to my work SMTP if (say) my ISPās SMTP server suddenly went down for a few hours.Ā So itās not an elegant or flexible solution, it actually decreases functionality.
But I canāt do it in any case:Ā My work email happens to be on an Exchange Server (not IMAP or POP3), and for this server type thereās no separateĀ SMTP settings tab (or anything separating incoming and outgoing mail settings).Ā The only way for me to achieve what I want is via using an alias for my ISP account.Ā Being able to set it as the default sender is functionality that is clearly useful, simple, and missing from eM client at the moment.
I would āget over it alreadyā if I were the only person who had brought this up, but itās a very simple thing (changing the default in a single drop-down) that lots of other people have asked for (Iām not the OP here), so Iām not sure why itās meeting such resistance from you.
As a Pro License user, please address any further questions to eM Client Support by opening a Support Ticket directly with them.
Before you get involved with eM Client Support, one last comment from me, and then they can explain the facts to you.
You said that what you meant was that you might want to use your ISP accountĀ to send outgoing mail (viaĀ smtp.yourisp.com), but receive replies on an unrelated email address. So I explained how to do that by using your ISP account to send with your work email address. In you latest reply you now say that you canāt do that anyway because your are using Exchange for work. My solution was to use your ISP SMTP NOT your work Exchange.
I setup one account like that using the ISP to send, but using another email address. Works a charm.