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NewYaka Author

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Filter Email by Display Name not email address

A lot of spam in my Inbox that has the same Display Name, but constantly changing actual email addresses. If you right click on the "From" field of most spam you will see what I'm talking about. The actual email address has no relationship to the phony name being displayed. Is there a way for Mac Mail to filter by Display Name?

Here's an example Chase<crook@*******Account.com>

Mac Mail will display that address as "from" Chase.

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Posted on Jul 16, 2021 8:00 AM

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Old Toad

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Posted on Jul 16, 2021 9:39 AM

So you want to see the actual email address instead of just Chase, correct? If so make sure this checkbox is unchecked in Mail's Viewing preference pane:

So you get this:

instead of this:

You may have to close and reopen Mail to get the change to show.

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