When I "Reply All" on an email, it gets sent to me also

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When I "Reply All" on an email, it gets sent to me also

In any email program I have ever used, including the iPhone and Apple Mail on the Mac, when you click "Reply All", it takes your own email out of the reply list so you don't get a copy of the email you are replying to. But my iPad isn't doing that. Unless I manually take my address out, when I do a "Reply All", it includes my name in the reply and I get the email in both my Sent folder and Inbox.

I've looked for an option to disable this, but can't find one. Frankly, I've never seen an option to turn this kind of thing off and on. It's basically just doesn't happen and you can't change. But with my iPad, it basically does happen and it appears you can't change that behavior.

Any clues? If this is the way it works, this has to be a bug and not a design flaw. Thanks.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.3), iPhone 3G 16Gb

Posted on Jun 8, 2010 1:25 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 8, 2010 1:33 PM in response to eddieb3

You don't accidentally have the "Always Bcc Myself" option turned on, do you? I think it's global, not per-account.

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Jun 8, 2010 1:39 PM in response to Doug Eldred

No, "Always Bcc Myself" is off. On the "Reply All" email, my email is included in the ""Cc" box and not the "Bcc" box.

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Jun 8, 2010 3:26 PM in response to eddieb3

Could your mail provider be doing something funky? I'm almost certainly that Reply-All on my iPad works as you expect, and not as you're seeing.

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Jun 8, 2010 4:55 PM in response to eddieb3

Triple-check the email addresses. When I sent myself an email, I too got an "extra" reply-all copy, but then I noticed that I'd accidentally used a MobileMe alias for the "to" address (mailed from my Gmail account). When I matched the actual account settings address, I didn't even see reply-all, just forward and reply.

Doug

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eddieb3 Author

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Jun 8, 2010 5:54 PM in response to Doug Eldred

I don't think my email provider is doing anything strange since it's MobileMe/Apple. "Reply All" works fine on my Mac & iPhone. It's just doing this weird thing on my iPad.

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eddieb3 Author

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Jun 8, 2010 6:03 PM in response to Doug Eldred

Thanks Doug, but I checked and that's not it either.

What I just did to test this problem out was to do a "Reply All" on the same exact email message. I tried it from my iPad and then from my Mac. I didn't actually send the message, but when I looked at the resulting replied email right before I would have sent it, the one on my iPad had one extra email in the "Cc" field - mine. The one on my Mac correctly excluded my email in the reply.

This isn't a show stopping problem by any stretch, but it sure is strange.

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eddieb3 Author

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Jun 9, 2010 6:22 PM in response to eddieb3

I figured out the problem on accident. Very long story short here. I use a MobileMe email account. When I set up the iPad, it set the account up automatically for me based on my email address, etc. But I just ran across the fact that when it set up the account automatically, it used the "@me.com" suffix on the email address. I use the "@mac.com" suffix instead. For those not familiar with MobileMe, you can use either interchangeably in the email address.

But when doing a reply all, since the email address I normally use and the one in my account settings is different, it didn't eliminate my email from "Reply All". So I changed the account email address (actually had to delete and recreate the account) and all is well.

Although your stabs at the problem didn't help me Doug, the one about the alias is similar to what the problem was and should have helped me, so I'll mark that down as "Helpful". Thanks!

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FluxAeon

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Jan 10, 2011 1:46 PM in response to eddieb3

Same problem. And wasn't solved by the below advice. Anyone else? I just took my name off the cc of a reply all email for the 10 millionth time...

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Jan 10, 2011 2:51 PM in response to FluxAeon

FluxAeon wrote:
Same problem. And wasn't solved by the below advice. Anyone else? I just took my name off the cc of a reply all email for the 10 millionth time...

So what have you tried?

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May 30, 2011 1:21 PM in response to eddieb3

The company uses one email address as our default name for Exchange accounts, but people can send me emails with slightly different aliases: firstname.lastname@company.com, username@dept.company.com etc. If I reply to emails that reached me through one of these aliases, Mail does not recognize that all these addresses are actually mine. Therefore, when I "reply all", I end up on the CC list. I wonder if you have a similar problem.

I am not sure how that works on an iPad, but on Mac Mail program, I can add additional email addresses in Preferences -> Accounts -> "Account Information" tab -> "Email Address" entry, separated by one comma and a space each. This prevents Mail from replying to myself.

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baldesh

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Jul 11, 2011 9:33 PM in response to Michael Morgan1

I solved my problem by adding both my @.me and @.Mac email address in the accounts section.

Go to Mail, Preference, Account information and under the "email address" box i keyed in my "name@me.com" added a "," and then followed it with "name@mac.com" so its looked like this

Email Addresses : name@mac.com, name@me.com

Hope that helps

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Aug 22, 2011 12:10 PM in response to chasing_rabbits

I'm having this issue with Exchange and Lion - Mac Mail, where my account name is {first initial}+{last name} and my alias is {first name}.{last name}@

Under preferences, accounts, email addresses, it is greyed out and I can't add my alias.

I've tried setting it up with both the real account name and alias but both grey out the email line. Thoughts?

-chris

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RAM

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Aug 24, 2011 4:09 PM in response to chasing_rabbits

Separating *all* my email addresses with commas in the email address field solved it for me.

Nice catch, Thanks! 🙂

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Sep 12, 2011 9:13 AM in response to RAM

Is that for an exchange account? Mine is still greyed out.

-chris

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Sep 23, 2011 6:27 AM in response to eddieb3

Any idea how to fix this for exchange?

Like Chris, mine is still greyed out.

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