See which e-Mail adress was sent to

Hi,


The title says it pretty well. I've recently switched to the Apple Mail App on iOS and I've noticed that it isn't clear about which email address a given email was sent to. I have a couple of email addresses (e.g. Gmail allows multiple Email adresses in one account) and they are in my contact. So, it shows that all messages are sent to Me (then when I click on it, it takes me to my own Contact details) but I can't seem to find out how to see exactly which email it was sent to. If I use gmail app on my android mobile phone, I can see exactly to which of the many email adresses I have was adressed.


I'm sure this is just me not yet knowing the program but I could really use some help trying to figure this out. I'm getting some emails on multiple addresses and on others, I can't tell which email address is getting billed for things.


Any help or info would be amazing. Thanks so much in advance!


p.s. I am not looking at 'All Inboxes' within the Mail app.

Posted on May 9, 2023 2:50 AM

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Posted on May 9, 2023 3:12 AM

You have encountered one of the many limitations of the native iOS/iPadOS Mail App. When you tap the addressee’s name, the associated contact card is opened - and this may have multiple email addresses associated with it - and not the actual email address to which the mail-message was sent.


Unlike many other Mail Apps, the native Mail App doesn’t have a facility to view the raw address header that would easily identify both the sender and recipient email address.


When looking at the All inboxes category, this limitation of the Mail App is compounded - as, by definition, you are looking at all of your configured inboxes.


The only method to have confidence of the recipient email address is to view the inbox of each of your email accounts, one at a time. Your native Mail App will show each account and mailbox independently - as well as the aggregate views of All inboxes, All Drafts, All Archive, All Sent, All Bins etc.


You can enable and disable each of the available mailbox views from the Mail App sidebar. If hidden, tap the sidebar icon at top-left of the Mail App window to expose the sidebar - then tap the Edit button at top-right of the sidebar. You can now enable/disable and re-order the mailbox views to meet you needs. Tap Done when you are finished editing.

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