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

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.

This was very helpful - I suddenly started having this problem when I got a new machine (Lion), did migration assistant from a Snow Leopard machine, and had to set up my mail accounts.

When I implemented the solution as stated by relativitydrive, I stopped getting myself copied when I did reply all. However, there was a predictable bad side effect: my email now seems to others like it comes from my gmail account, rather than the account I was formerly using in Preferences (which is also setup in Gmail imap settings to be the "reply from" email address).

Here's the strange thing: when I switched the account email address listed in Mail Preferences back from the gmail address to the original address (the very address I started off with in Mail Preferences), the problem did not occur again - when I hit reply-all, Mail does not copy me!

Why this happened I don't know, but perhaps this will be useful to somewhere out there in googleland.

this also started happening for me out of nowhere today. and is driving me nuts. any ideas how to fix yet?

Ahh i figured it out...

goto outlook 2011 preferences

then goto accounts

and make sure your email address matches what people are emailing you.

i recently changed it to a different alias email that still comes to the same email address but everyone still emails me to my old alias.

i also had good luck with this problem today. go to Mac Mail Preferences. Open Accounts. Ensure that the Email Address field is exactly the same as the User Name field. Wallah!

I have same problem as originally described by pieceolease; however in this case it is in Outlook 2011. So, "fixes" described here that relate to Mac Mail do not work.

It only started occurring after company moved our mail system to a new Exchange Server; think it was also happening on Windows version of Outlook, but I moved off that to Mac version (Outlook 2011) a while back so cannot test that right now.

Any thoughts ?

I'm having this same problem on Outlook 2011, Exchange 2010 and only since moving to Lion on a new system. My email usually ends up in the "To:" field, not the "CC:" field.

The main Mail account in Systems Prefs was for my @me.com account, but i changed that to my work email. Problem still exists.

For my work email, i have two alias. Full.name@ and <4letter-short-form>@ - in Outlook prefs i have only ever had my work email in the short-form associated with the account.

any real fix, or are we waiting on MS or Apple to fix this?