"Did you mean to add a recipient?" prompt triggered by signature in Mail

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

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.

I found the solution!!!

Go to

-Mail -> Settings -> Signatures

Select the Signature that is causing the problem

• On the right box select the email address from the signature text
• Right click and select Link -> Edit Link
• Remove the "mailto:" (leave only the email address)
• Click Ok
• close the settings and test if you can send email without the prompt to be triggered

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...

"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."

This worked for me as well.

Trick is to edit your signatures (add an extra space or something small). Then it goes away!

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 found the following worked for resolving this for me:

1. Mail->Preferences->Composing
2. Check the box for Automatically CC Myself
3. Quit Mac Mail, Then Reopen
4. Mail->Preferences->Composing
5. Uncheck the box for Automatically CC Myself
6. Quit Mac Mail, Then Reopen

That resolved the issue for me.

I fixed this on my MacBook Air M1 2020 by editing my email signatures. All I did was removed my email address from my signatures, then I manually added them back (no cut and paste). I haven't had the issue since.

Had same problem. Seem to have been able to fix it by deleting my standard signature and doing a new one

Mine was with a twitter handle - I just added a space after it, before the carriage return, and it stopped being annoying. Still a bug, but it's a workaround.

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

No one here can help you and no one from Apple is reading your plea.

Instead, let Apple know of your issue here:

Feedback - Mail - Apple

No one here could possibly say.

It will get fixed when it gets fixed, in the mean time, please let Apple know directly if you haven't already:

Feedback - Mail - Apple

Again, don't post here about it, let Apple know:

Feedback - Mail - Apple

Just go to Settings> Composing > Addressing > Send new messages from: and choose your address.