Sent folder only show senders name in mail apps

I use 10.8.2; Mail 6.2 and still have this issue. Tryed everything from this article (manipulations with classic view coloumns, system preference settings, direct imap folder syncing). Nothink solved this issue.

Hey Apple I'll never ever forget my own name ok? =) And I know that only I send the e-mails to someone. I really dream about this bug fixed because love Mail.app.

I'll just add that I never figured it out either. Gave up months ago and just accepted the deficiency — I mean who has the time to put hours and days into these things? I'm disappointed but I'm over a barrel too, since I have little interest in changing my mail application.

At least not yet.

Running Mail 5.3 and Lioin 10.7. Same issue. Sent folder shows my name and not who the emai was sent to. Annoying when tryng to find an email for follow up work. Apple should fix this. An add-on app, Mail Tags corrects this but why should we have to buy an add-on for something as simple as this. Sidebar - a feature I would like to see in Mail is the ability to "delay" sending an email. Create a new mail today, and set the Send date for tomorrow afternoon. Good for when I'm up early in the AM and am sending emails to collegues on the West Coast of US that are still sleeping. I don't want to be in their Inbox until later in their day. Or I'm going to be on an airplane most of today and can schedule emails.

let me try to help. who is your mail client?

Hi, I have multiple accounts in Mac Mail, using Mountain Lion. I solved this problem by clicking on the triangle next to Sent in the mailbox menu to expand the menu into Sent from each individual account. I selected each individual Sent mailbox in turn, and the messages now displayed recipient instead of sender. When I collapsed the menu again, recipients continued to show. I have a feeling it might switch back at some point, but at the moment it's holding up.

Colin, you got it!

Your funky solution is indeed a solution (or at least until it isn't)

Thanks for posting it!

Oh.

Was I just tired? Drinking? Can't remember.

But there was no solution.

If I'm looking in SENT (any sent account) with any search term, then it's the sender's name (that is, mine) that's BOLD. Which, as another commenter has observed, is really useful, since I often forget who sends off my mail.

a colleague of mine is having the same problem in outlook for mac

Also i can't click the "use this mailbox for" option, it is grayed out...

i still have the same problem...

Restarting Mail worked for me. The Sent folder now displays the To recipient instead of the Sender. I'm running OS X 10.8.5 and Mail 6.6.

I had this problem again in Mavericks, after having had it in Mountain Lion too. Then I found your solution Colin and it worked - thanks for that.

For me, the problem of sent mail not displaying the recipient within the “official” sent mail folders was solved a long time ago. However, I archive all of my emails, sent and received together, into a variety of folders, including the standard Archive folder. Within those folders, emails that I've sent only show my name instead of displaying the recipient.

This is not helpful. Any email sent from my Mail app was obviously sent by me. I need to see who each email was sent TO without having to click on every single message in the list.

It would make much more sense to always display the recipient, not the sender (whenever I'm the sender), across all folders.

My suggestion would be to add a small “To” icon in front of all sent items in the list and show at least the first recipient, rather than the “From”, which, once again, is always me.

I spoke too soon, I am still plagued by this problem. If, for example, I'm looking at all the mails in one of my Inboxes, they show the sender's name in the list on the left-hand side. However, if you search for mails, they all then show my own name or email address (as recipient), which is not a lot of use to me at all. I'm pretty sure I reported this as a bug in Mountain Lion.

Guys, just go to settings, view and mark show To label at the messages list (or something like that, mine is in portughese). I wonder how this is not default ???? Should I be remembered that the sender of my own emails is myself ??

Hope to help.

Nope, different settings don't seem to affect the problem.

But I'm used to it now. But it would be nice if, say in the next 10 years or so, there was some improvement.