Replies to iCloud emails going from wrong address: Apple mail OS X

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Replies to iCloud emails going from wrong address: Apple mail OS X

In my Apple Mail app I have 3 accounts: iCloud, GMail and Outlook. Recently my iCloud emails have become properly messed up because when I reply to an email to my iCloud address, it is often being sent from my GMail address. Hence when someone replies to that it ends up in my GMail inbox and the email trail is messed up.

NEW emails are sent from iCloud as expected - this problem is only affecting replies and appears to be random.

Looking in Prefs > Composing I have 'Automatically select best account' selected. However, the drop down only shows Outlook and GMail as alternatives - not iCloud.

I trashed the com.apple.mail.plist file and things improved. However, it is starting over again.

Aside from a new mail client - any suggestions?

MacBook Pro

Posted on Feb 3, 2022 9:28 AM

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manofdogz Author

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Feb 3, 2022 1:55 PM in response to DonH49

What kind of answer is that? If I get an email my reply should be from the same address - Period! That’s how it’s always worked but now something’s wrong. So - I’m after any advice about what might be wrong and how to fix the issue - not statements of the obvious.

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a brody

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Feb 4, 2022 7:14 PM in response to manofdogz

Keep in mind this is a user to user forum. We are just here to try to help. You may be able to adjust your settings on http://www.icloud.com/ for your email accounts. Keep in mind, the selected mailbox at the time you compose the message makes a difference as to which account it uses when you try to send a message.

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