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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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relativitydrive

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8 points

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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Oct 29, 2015 2:01 AM in response to stevenzac

I found a solution for El Capitan:

On the top menu, go to Mail -> Preferences
Click on the Accounts section at the top of the Preferences pane (might already be selected)
Click on the account you want to edit on the left
Click on the dropdown menu for Alias: and click Edit Aliases on the bottom
Either:
- Add an alias with a blank Full Name and your Email address
- Remove the Full Name from the alias you already have
Click OK

CCAPPL

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Oct 29, 2015 9:55 AM in response to davidomundo

stevenzac this has been happening since Yosemite so it's not just an El Capitan issue.

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Thank you for these instructions davidomundo. I'm not sure I am clear on #4. When I follow 1-4 there is already an alias there with the full name and email address--Full name is actually the nickname I use to ID the account and the email address. You're saying to simply delete the name portion? And this solves the problem?

I don't think I can do these steps in IOS. Do you have a fix for that too?

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I thought I sent this reply in an earlier post but it appears not--more FYI:

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

CCAPPL

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24 points

Oct 29, 2015 1:51 PM in response to davidomundo

Ok so I deleted the FULL NAME, left he the email. It not fix the problem, Still copying me. And it messed up all the settings in my auto signatures and now I can't re-attach them.

jwalta

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Nov 10, 2015 10:23 AM in response to CCAPPL

I just set up my new MacBook Pro, and this is happening to me as well. It's crazy-making.

Aug 5, 2016 10:29 AM in response to davidomundo

This should totally work, but when I open preferences and edit that information, either in the aliases or the account name, the SAVE or OK dialogue pops up, but when i hit SAVE or OK - it does nothing. I cant close the preferences box and have to force quit out of mail? Should I remove my Mail prefs and start over? How?

Nov 10, 2016 12:35 PM in response to Pingu the Penguin

Thanks so much Pingu! Your link was a little off so I had to poke around a little to find the page, which was posted 3 October 2015 at https://codeisgreen.net/blog/2015/10/03/el-capitan-and-exchange-aliases-solution /

Here is the text for those that don't like following links:

1. In OSX Mail, select Mail -> Preferences.

2. Highlight your Exchange account from the list on the left.

3. Make sure the Account Information tab is selected in the right panel and look for the Alias dropdown.

4. The alias dropdown may be greyed out (it was for me) so, if it is, go to the Outgoing Mail Server dropdown and change it to none.

5. Close down that panel (or select another mail account from the left menu if you have one) to force it to save. It should ask you if you want to save settings.

6. Go back into that panel and you should find the Alias dropdown is no longer greyed out, so click the dropdown box and then select Edit Aliases.

7. You can now use the + and – buttons to add any aliases you want.

8. When you’ve added all your aliases, before you exit, change the Outgoing Mail Server entry back to Exchange.

Dec 14, 2016 7:44 AM in response to joseph281

Very nice! Apple Mail>Preferences>Accounts and just added the main email address I use to there under "Email Addresses" Worked like a charm! Thanks!

Joe Ped

Level 1

4 points

Mar 16, 2017 12:05 PM in response to jreinstein

Worked like a charm, thanks. I noticed in Sierra you are able to add it with out changing the outgoing mail settings.

tallscot

Level 1

68 points

Sep 13, 2017 6:43 AM in response to pieceolease

Had this issue too! Thanks!

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