Mac Mail needs to display a sender's email address next to their name to avoid scams.

Currently Mac Mail only displays the name of an email sender and not their address. This makes things much easier for scammers and more dangerous for users. By displaying the email address, users would see at a glance that the email sender is bogus and avoid people falling for phishing attempts like the one below.


MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 14.2

Posted on Mar 17, 2024 9:13 AM

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Posted on Mar 18, 2024 12:26 AM

Re: Mac Mail needs to display a sender's email address next to their name to avoid scams.


Try going to Mail > Settings > Viewing > if "Use Smart Addresses" is on ... turn it off to always display names and addresses.

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Mar 18, 2024 7:46 AM in response to gaggleweed

These are fellow user supported public communities and neither Apple, nor Apple product teams participate here. Thus, you post is not being read by anyone that can change Apple Mail's design.


You can send a feature request to the Apple Mail Product team and they will read it, but without any certainty that they will either respond, or implement your request.


One thing you can do to see if it originated at Amazon is to do the following:

  1. Select the email message with a single-click
  2. In the Mail View menu : Choose Message > Raw Source
    1. This will open a new window displaying the mail header gibberish.
    2. Press cmd+F to open a search window in that gibberish
      1. Enter Return-Path
      2. Check the Return-PaTH entry enclosed in <...> brackets, do you see any reference to Amazon?
  3. Click the red traffic icon on that open Mail header window to close it


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Mac Mail needs to display a sender's email address next to their name to avoid scams.

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