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My email and my wife's have somehow got crossed. I send from my email address and it is received as coming from me. However, incoming mail addressed to my address arrives addressed to my wife's address. This is not spam or anything life that, these are bona fide messages addressed to me. There is an Ipad in the mix so the crossover might be happening there. Help. I am running an old Imac on El Capitan v10.11.6
Hey there AB-DAB,
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities. I understand you’re having mail related issues. I’ll be happy to help.
Check the mail accounts that are signed in on your Mac. You can do this in Mail > Preferences > Accounts in Mac OS X El Capitan. If you see your wife’s email address there, you may want to consider removing it. This link has more info:
Add or remove email accounts in Mail on Mac
Once you remove it, you can create your wife her own user account on your Mac with these steps:
Set up users, guests, and groups on Mac
If you do this, you can add her email account in this user so that your emails aren’t getting crossed up.
On your iPad, check Settings > Mail and see what it says for Default Account. Make sure that is set to your account.
Let me know if these steps help.
Hey there AB-DAB,
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities. I understand you’re having mail related issues. I’ll be happy to help.
Check the mail accounts that are signed in on your Mac. You can do this in Mail > Preferences > Accounts in Mac OS X El Capitan. If you see your wife’s email address there, you may want to consider removing it. This link has more info:
Add or remove email accounts in Mail on Mac
Once you remove it, you can create your wife her own user account on your Mac with these steps:
Set up users, guests, and groups on Mac
If you do this, you can add her email account in this user so that your emails aren’t getting crossed up.
On your iPad, check Settings > Mail and see what it says for Default Account. Make sure that is set to your account.
Let me know if these steps help.
Thanks BreeZee, that fixed things nicely.
Emails sent to my address arrive addressed to my wife's email address.
