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"Reply All" re-sends to me! So annoying!

When there is a convo between a group, or an email sent directly to me (with others CC'd), when I "reply all", it puts my email in the cc spot.

I do NOT have the "cc me on everything" checked in preferences. I have checked my address book and made sure there is only 1 entry for my email. It doesnt matter if i was a cc or it was sent directly to me, I am always included and when I send I get an email in my inbox from myself. I have to physically delete my contact from the reply all email to not receive it.

some technical info. the email address i use is gmail. that in turn forwards to my mobile me account. Mobile me pushes to all my devices. its mobile me that is set up on my mac mail NOT GMAIL. The outgoing server is setup to send through gmail, though, so that people see emails as coming through my gmail, not mobile me. hope that makes sense and you can help! thanks!

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Mar 17, 2011 4:21 PM

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Posted on May 8, 2011 8:04 AM

I have a solution to this. It is not as simple or as obvious as taking yourself off the CC to list. I've posted this elsewhere but thought best to put it up here as it's an issue seen with gmail accounts and a lot of Mac and iPhone users...


The answer to this is...


Make sure your email address that is registered in Mac's Mail program under Preferences, Accounts, is exactly the same as the account's version of the address.


Here's my example:


xxx.xxx@gmail.com was the name used in Mac's Mail program and on my iPhone. This works fine and is acceptable because @gmail.com is a replacement for @googlemail.com


The account when I set it up was @googlemail.com.


I changed the xxx.xxx@gmail.com to xxx.xxx@googlmail.com and both the iPhone and the Mac's Mail program now exclude me when replying to all.


You must ALSO change the outgoing mail server information to smtp.googlemail.com to make this function. It still works with gmail on the incoming mail server but changing that to googlemail is recommended.


This is due to the mail programs not recognising the alias automatically and therefore not pruning the address when required. This is an issue that Apple needs to solve if it can be done without breaking other rules that are obviously there for a reason.


If you don't use googlemail and your mail account doesn't have the replacement option like gmail, you'll still have to find a solution.

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Nov 3, 2014 12:29 PM in response to pieceolease

If you are using exchange and don't have Outlook you may find that the email address field in Preferences > Accounts > Account Information is disabled so you cannot add additional email addresses. You can still fix this issue in Mavericks by editing ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Accounts.plist searching for the following line:


<key>EmailAddresses</key>
<array>
     <string>default.email.address@example.com</string>
</array>


And then adding in the address that people are actually sending email too:


<key>EmailAddresses</key>
<array>
     <string>default.email.address@example.com</string>
     <string>another.email.address@example.com</string>
</array>


Then restart Mail. If you go to Preferences > Accounts > Account Information you should now see


default.email.address@example.com, another.email.address@example.com

in the Email Address field.

Dec 17, 2014 11:57 AM in response to Renaissance_man

I see the same problem being CC'd but in our case, we have Exchange 2010 with multiple alias's. If I set the address to the correct email address, after a few days it reverts back to one of the other alias address's. Is anyone else seeing this behavior? I can even force it to happen by logging into Outlook Web Access, going to options, pulling up the phone and deleting the device. The next time the phone tries to contact the Exchange server, it picks up the wrong address and populates it in the email address field under settings.

Apr 30, 2015 1:16 AM in response to pieceolease

I had the problem with MacOS 10.10.3 and mail.app and running an exchange account. I tried everything changing the adress card to this is me and so on, nothing helped.


Finally, when i was looking through my exchange settings i found the problem. We get usernames based on our names eg person John Doe gets johdo. This we use as user names on the servers. Our email address is still john.doe@xxxx.xx though. So all mail i receive is to john.doe@xxxx.xx, but in mail preferences my email was listed as johdo@xxx.xx (which is also valid), when I changed this reply all started to work.

Jul 22, 2015 12:32 PM in response to rojocaweb

rojocaweb wrote:


If you are using exchange and don't have Outlook you may find that the email address field in Preferences > Accounts > Account Information is disabled so you cannot add additional email addresses. You can still fix this issue in Mavericks by editing ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Accounts.plist searching for the following line:


  1. <key>EmailAddresses</key>
  2. <array>
  3. <string>default.email.address@example.com</string>
  4. </array>


And then adding in the address that people are actually sending email too:


  1. <key>EmailAddresses</key>
  2. <array>
  3. <string>default.email.address@example.com</string>
  4. <string>another.email.address@example.com</string>
  5. </array>


Then restart Mail. If you go to Preferences > Accounts > Account Information you should now see


in the Email Address field.

I was unable to edit my address field in the preferences section, and this worked for me. No more CC'ing to myself!

Aug 12, 2015 3:43 PM in response to pieceolease

I am also having this issue but I'm NOT using REPLY ALL, just REPLY. I have GMAIL (IMAP) coming into MAC MAIL and every email I reply to comes back to my inbox as an email to me as well! It's like doing double duty to delete them all! SO ANNOYING! Please help! I've tried everything and nothing works.


Additionally, none (or very little) of my spam from gmail is coming into my mac mail--I often need to have my spam delivered so I can sort through it. I have the JUNK settings in MAC MAIL turned OFF and I have the Settings in GMAIL turned on to allow the SPAM folder to show up--it doesn't show up in the list BTW - ONLY as the JUNK folder in MAC MAIL. Why is it all so glitchy! Thanks all!

Oct 23, 2015 11:57 AM in response to Beavis2084

This is definitely not normal behavior and it didn't work like this in the past. Maybe this happened with the upgrade to El Capitan. I just called tech support and the woman told me the same thing happens on her system. If someone emails me and another person, and then I hit reply all....there is no reason I should end up with a copy of the message again in my inbox. It should just go to the sent folder. And in fact, this is the way it's working on the iPad and iPhone....so this is an OS X issue and I wish they'd recognize that this is a problem.

"Reply All" re-sends to me! So annoying!

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