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There seems to be a new bug introduced to Mail in Mountain Lion.
In Mail preferences, on the Composing tab, you can still set "Send new messages from account of selected mailbox." Unfortunately, this setting seems to have no effect and all new mail is sent by default from the first account in your mail accounts list.
Any idea how to work around this?
Thanks!
iMac / iBook / iPhone, Mac OS X (10.5.2)
and EIGHT MONTHS LATER it is finally fixed!
if only we had the power to demand to know why it took soooooo long!
ross70s wrote:
if only we had the power to demand to know why it took soooooo long!
Frankly I’m just happy it’s fixed. Don’t push our luck 🙂
Yes, it's fixed for new messages coming in only. For messages received and filed in a non-InBox folder prior to the upgrade, a reply is sent from the default email account, not the email account to which the original message was sent. So I consider this a partial fix. Sigh.
DPBest wrote:
Yes, it's fixed for new messages coming in only. For messages received and filed in a non-InBox folder prior to the upgrade, a reply is sent from the default email account, not the email account to which the original message was sent. So I consider this a partial fix. Sigh.
It works even with very old messages for me, except for only a couple, but I don't know why.
This issue is resolved for me. 🙂
The only issue I see is with "Reply All". The 'From' address, which is now correct, appears in the CC field of the reply. Which I believe is incorrect.
Indeed, "Reply All" still includes my own email address in the CC, but at least it's the correct address now. The "CC myself" option in Preferences>Composing has no effect.
And contrary to other reports above, the issue seems to be fixed for all of my email; today's, November, and even back to 2004.
It is indeed fixed! I am jumping up and down in rejoicement.
Also, I can now finally send the gift I got for the head of the Mail.app engineering team many months ago.
- Brian
It is indeed fixed! I am jumping up and down in rejoicement.
Yup. It's like getting a brand new Mac!
It's working for me almost all the time. Sigh!
DPBest wrote:
Yes, it's fixed for new messages coming in only. For messages received and filed in a non-InBox folder prior to the upgrade, a reply is sent from the default email account, not the email account to which the original message was sent. So I consider this a partial fix. Sigh.
Are you sure? It seems to work for me on ALL messages. I intentionally tested that after upgrading... went to folders with messages sent to multiple email address, and did a reply on about 20 just to test... every one of them set the reply from the correct address... Because I don’t get a lot of email to some addresses, I know most of the emails that I tested with were old ones, filed into various mailboxes by my rules.
Well, yes and no. It works fine with the "To" field in the header has my account information. If the message is from something like a Yahoo Groups distributuion list, the "To" field is meaningless, and the account information for a reply is in the "Envelope To" field. Snow Leopard and Lion replied from the account in the "Envelop To" field but Mt. Lion doesn't if the message has been move out of the inbox. Sigh.
Yeah, I'd put this down as a partial fix:
1) When I reply, it now correctly is from the address that received the e-mail. So hooray, this major pain is fixed.
2) However, when I "reply all", it also includes the address that received the e-mail in the group of Cc's, so I end up sending myself my reply. This is not correct and a minor pain.
So thank you Apple for fixing the main problem, but jeez, it would have been nice to complete the job.
PrincetonMacUser wrote:
2) However, when I "reply all", it also includes the address that received the e-mail in the group of Cc's, so I end up sending myself my reply. This is not correct and a minor pain.
I've had that problem for years, actually. Odd.
Like the Yahoo example above, 10.8.3 does not fix message that come from google groups, either. Apple needs to look a little deeper into the headers to do this right. However, given that it took them so long to even do this half-fix, there is little hope that this will ever be fully resolved now.
Mail bug in Mountain Lion
