Ex Husband's name popping up in Mail?

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Ex Husband's name popping up in Mail?

I just got a refurbed older MacBook. It uses my Apple ID a lot, which my older MacBook running a much older operating system did not. It defaults outgoing emails from my apple email address, and the name it puts in the "from" window is inexplicably my (lying, cheating) ex-husband's. This ID predates my marriage by many, many years, and I don't know how he got attached to it unless it had something to do with our iphones or something. Oddly, if I go into my Apple ID account, his name is nowhere to be seen, so where is it populating from, and how do I get rid of it???

Posted on Jul 1, 2022 3:48 PM

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David McKinlay

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Jul 1, 2022 10:46 PM in response to FujiGalaGrannySmith

The outgoing 'name' being used in your emails is a label or description which can be changed.

You can edit the description of each email address by going into your Mac's Mail preferences (Command and comma - or Mail menu bar dropdown > Preferences) then in the Accounts tab choose iCloud. On the right of this panel you will see beside the label Email Address a dropdown of all the emails and aliases you are using for your Apple ID.

If you select the bottom-most option called Edit Email Addresses you can then proceed to select them and edit them in turn. These are just descriptions for the presentation of your email on your Mac and do not affect your account.

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Jul 2, 2022 8:08 AM in response to David McKinlay

Oh, thank you!!! That did it. Which now leaves the question: How did his name get associated with my email in the first place, and mine was not? Weird.

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Ex Husband's name popping up in Mail?

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