"Did you mean to add a recipient?
You wrote “…[Email and phone redacted] ”, but it looks like you may have missed adding the recipient."
No, I didn't, that's my email in my signature. Anyone else being driven crazy by this prompt?
forcedaccountcreationislame wrote:
"Did you mean to add a recipient?
You wrote “…[Email and phone redacted] ”, but it looks like you may have missed adding the recipient."
No, I didn't, that's my email in my signature. Anyone else being driven crazy by this prompt?
? say what
is there some references or bigger context here...?
delete the signature and compare your results.
add a new signature and compare your results
Create and use email signatures in Mail on Mac - Apple Support
For problem accounts the go to way to sort things out is to delete the account, then add it back.
Remove email accounts in Mail on Mac
Remove email accounts in Mail on Mac - Apple Support
Add email accounts in Mail on Mac - Apple Support
Add email accounts in Mail on Mac - Apple Support
Note—
IMAP accounts stay on the server, so no local loss, when you re-sync
POP accounts download and remove from the server—therefor save your inbox/sent box if you want them
On My Mac" is just that, local folders you created and moved mail into. So no loss
BARSTL wrote:
BTW, is it true, as is asserted below, that no one from Apple reviews these discussions? I would think they would see them as a place to identify problems in their earliest stages.
Yes.
These forums exist to allow Apple users the opportunity to help other Apple users.
Apple does not read these forums other than to ensure compliance with the Terms of Use.
Apple Support Communities Use Agreement - Apple Community
which also states:
Apple may respond to questions but does not formally provide technical support on the Site.
This forum exists to allow Apple users to help other Apple users.
Apple employees do not read the forums except to ensure adherence to the Use Agreement:
Apple Support Communities Use Agreement - Apple Community
Item 7 in particular reads:
Apple may respond to questions but does not formally provide technical support on the Site.
I have this problem too, and none of the workaround in other comments helped at all.
I've left a bug report in Feedback - Mail - Apple, saying this is a showstopper bug for me — I won't upgrade any of my other devices, and I'm recommending against upgrading to everyone I know until this is fixed.
More than that, though, it really feels like they didn't even test this feature. How could they have missed this bug? Doesn't virtually every email signature include contact info like your email address? Don't they test sending email with a signature?
I found the following worked for resolving this for me:
That resolved the issue for me.
I found the solution!!!
Go to
-Mail -> Settings -> Signatures
Select the Signature that is causing the problem
If you get back to the email on the link that you removed you will see that the "mailto:" is there again. this is happened due to the fact that the app completes the string and corrects the problem.
Hope it helps.
Sorry for my english...
Yes, I'm getting the same message. It occurs on my iMac when I reply to a received email. So far the messages my replies have all been sent, but it's a bit disconcerting. This has only started happening since the update to Ventura. It doesn't happen when I send a fresh email - ie not one which is part of a thread.
Come on Apple - sort this out. We all pay top dollar for your kit, so I for one expect better from you.
This is the upgraded Mail in Ventura trying to be helpful. Does anyone know how to turn it off. It's terrible and will ask at the same about attachments if they are mentioned and lots of other things.
Exactly the same for me since the update!
Every email I send now asks "Did you mean to add a recipient?" even though there is a perfectly formatted email in the 'To' field.
When I removed my email address from the signature, the prompt no longer appears.
You don't have to remove your signature to fix it.
I fixed it by copying my current signature to the clipboard, deleting the existing signature, creating a new one and copying the exact same signature into the new one.
Problem gone for me now
I have also had this problem. And at least one the message I was trying to send got stuck in the Outbox after I had clicked "Send Anyway" (I'm not sure of the exact wording.) I did get it send after trying again, and I don't know if the two problems are related.
BTW, is it true, as is asserted below, that no one from Apple reviews these discussions? I would think they would see them as a place to identify problems in their earliest stages.
I updated to Ventura last night, and the first reply back email I go to send today I immediately got this message. Never happened before and I've never seen that message in my 15 years of being a MAC user. Im guessing a bug within the update. Is there a fix for this?
Yes I keep getting this too only since Ventura, I do not want to remove my account and reinstall it as it was difficult enough in the first place, I want to know why this is happening and when it will be sorted Please
There is no actual fix for this that I know of.
Even if you have turned a live Mailto: link in your signature to plain text, the problem still exists.
This new "feature" (sic) pops up every time you try to send a message and Mail.app finds any email address in the message body or signature that's not already a recipient address in the To:, Cc:, or Bcc: fields.
If you mention someone's email address in the body, boom. If you quote an email chain that has a dozen addresses showing in the text, boom. Mail.app will offer to add (all of?) those addresses as recipients.
It's annoying and disruptive, and we need to be able to switch it off.
Sending Apple feedback now.
…Bob
I finally upgraded yesterday and BOOM - I get the error.
Then I noticed that the error only applied to my Mastadon account in my sig, not to my email address.
Hmmm...
Next, I went to the Me card in contacts,
added in a new email address,
Named it Mastadon
And entered in my Mastodon account ID in the email address field.
Tested a sent message and it worked beautifully. No error message about my Mastadon address in the signature.
Looks like it's hunting for email addresses in the body text that are not in the header or on your ME card.
Kim
"Did you mean to add a recipient?" prompt triggered by signature in Mail
