Strange "Reply to:" address appearing on sent emails

Same thing here for maybe a week or so. A familiar “Reply To” address is added to emails that have nothing to do with the sender.

I have seen the same issue and no xfinity connection. A reply-to: showing in an email I received that is an email address I have probably used or received email from but has NOTHING to do with that particular message or sender. (The sender is website A that I use and am getting a support email from, the reply-to is website B that I use but am not in any discussion with and has not the least bit to do with A)

i checked via the email provider’s web interface and there is no reply-to on the message. Pretty sure it is a glitch in the Apple mail client.

The issue was escalated to engineering; almost one thousand people have reported the issue. So, it should be addressed in an update.

I have an open ticket with Apple. At their recommendation, I deleted all email accounts, restarted phone, added email accounts ... and the issue still appears. Then I reinstalled iOS 17.4.1 and ... the issue still appears. The next step is to wipe the phone and start anew, but I agree with you that it's a bug with Apple's Mail client. So, I may not wipe the phone. (Note that the other way to clear the error is just to force quit Mail, rather than a reboot.) Apple's next step is to escalate it to engineering, so I will make that call this week. But, it may be too late to correct the error in 17.5.

Further note:

rebooted my phone and now that message still shows a reply-to - but it is correctly the same as the from.

i hope Apple is listening. You appear to have a bug.

You've experienced the precise issue that Apple told me had been escalated to engineering. How it happens is beyond me; I just hope that Apple has time to address it before the release of iOS 17.5. One thing I noticed is that the problem does not appear in macOS 14.4.1, and I advised Apple Support. I also told them I haven't noticed if it's a problem in iPadOS 17.4.1, simply because I don't use it as much.

Speaking with Apple Support to have it escalated to engineering. Will update with Apple's response.

Senior Apple Advisor stated that almost 1,000 people have reported the problem to Apple. My guess is that they were direct communications with Apple Support.

You need to contact support for your email provider.

Is this specifically for messages sent to a mailing list server?

I have strange reply-to’s appearing in emails on my iPhone Mail client only, in Gmail account. Not happening in the Gmail app. I think it’s an iOS mail app bug.

This just happened. My wife just sent an email to our property management company and received an auto response with a reply-to email labeled “Rack Room Shoes” and when I looked at the reply-to info it listed a really long email address @rackroomshoes.com.

My wife restarted her phone and the reply-to emails were no longer present.

We have Xfinity Internet but that seems like a stretch considering the reply-to addresses were removed after restarting the phone?

This email was initially sent using a Gmail account connected to the Apple email client on her phone.

That’s my guess, but a search of Xfinity’s user forums may confirm it’s their issue.

What you need to do is view the raw message. That will show the “reply to” that was actually inserted by the sender’s mail server.

Same thing for me. Has there been any feedback as to why this is happening????

I am also getting strange and unknown "reply to" addresses on emails received on my iphone for both aol and gmail. Apple problem or email server issue?