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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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Dec 19, 2011 1:01 PM in response to Chris Cantrell

Hey Chris,


I finally found a solution. You can edit this file where USERNAME = users acutal account on the mac:


Close Mail.


Go to:


/Users/USERNAME/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/accounts.plist


Under this:

<key>EmailAddresses</key>

<array>

<string>mail@mac.com</string>

</array>


Type:

<key>EmailAliases</key>

<array>

<dict>

<key>alias</key>

<string>aliasmail@aliasblahblah.com</string>

<key>name</key>

<string>Name 1</string>

</dict>

</array>


Save version of file.


Open Mail.


I hope this helps - it seemed to work for me.

Apr 30, 2014 2:14 PM in response to MattyMC

This did not work for me; it only caused Mail (version 7.2 (1874)) to be unable to sign into my Exchange account.


What did work perfectly for me is:


1) Close Mail


2) Backup Users/Username/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Accounts.plist


3) Open Users/Username/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Accounts.plist


4) Change:

<key>EmailAddresses</key>

<array>

<string>alias@domain1.com</string>

</array>

To:

<key>EmailAddresses</key>

<array>

<string>alias@domain1.com</string>

<string>alias@domain2.com</string>

</array>

5) Save


6) Reopen Mail

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

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