If you use multiple email addresses that all forward to the same email account, it’s easy to setup with the OSX desktop mail app. All you have to do is enter your various email addresses into the account setup Address field, separated by commas. When writing messages, you can select reply-to address from a drop-down.
On the iPhone, though, the Address field in the account setup brings up a limited character keyboard and the comma is not one of the characters that you can type. This would seem to indicate that the iPhone doesn’t support multiple addresses without adding a separate account for each.
What you can do, though is type your addresses, separated by commas in the Description field and then copy/paste the whole thing into the Account field. The craziest part is that it actually works! Once you paste your email addresses, you will see a “From” field when composing emails. Clicking this field will allow you to choose your reply address – the same as the Mail desktop app.
It’s a little strange and surprising that Apple prevents you from typing the comma into that field, yet manages to support multiple reply-to addresses anyway. It probably has some security implications for any application that rely on a limited character keyboard for input validation. Because originally there was no copy/paste on the iPhone, it would have been impossible to type illegal characters. With copy/paste, though, you can circumvent that limitation.
