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Reply to All includes myself in the recipients

Hello


Since the upgrade from Lion to Mountain Lion, I get times (many) where when trying to "Reply to All" in mail, i am also in CC.


This happens especially when my email address is in the CC field of the original email, but not when I am in the To: field.

So when replyin to all, in case I was in the To: field everything is ok, but when I am in Cc: then my reply is also cc:ed to me.


I just use the SAME account to reply AND i have NOT auto bcc on.


Any ideas?

OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Jul 29, 2012 11:09 AM

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Posted on Jul 29, 2012 11:18 AM

In Mail Preferences, Composing Section, uncheck "Automatically CC myself"

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Sep 18, 2012 12:04 PM in response to Desertmac

Desertmac:


You are right about this. My own testing supports it. I have for many years used mail rules to sort mail out of my Inbox. If I don't do that, my email will be inconveniently "archived" at my company after 30 days. This was a shortsighted decision on Apple's part. This change obviates Smart Mailboxes, by the way. It was clearly the wrong design decision


Knowing Apple, it's not going to fix the problem. Time to start looking for another email program.

Sep 19, 2012 9:00 AM in response to Desertmac

Ok I have this issue as well I tried the suggested fix, and thought it worked at first, but realized it it did not. I have 3 email accounts setup in mail, not sorting. I have my me.com address, my gmail.com address and my work address (which is a google apps for business account. I never really get any mail that I reply to in my personal gmail account, never any that I need to reply all to, my me.com account is a personal address that i only use for informational emails, my work email I reply and reply all many times a day. This issue is only on my work email address, my gmail and me accounts work perfect when replying to all, it is weird because my work and gmail are almost identical accounts, one is a paid style account the other free. What is weirder, if I receive an email sent to a group account that I am part of, it will not CC myself, only if it is sent to my email address.

Sep 19, 2012 1:56 PM in response to skoussouris

This is not a solution but a possible work around untill there is a real --


Create a rule where:


if the CC is equal to <your email> AND

the from is equal to <your email>


Then


delete message

OR

move to sent folder.


This will not work if you email yourself reminders but there are so many good reminder apps out there -- including MLs -- that it should not matter.


If you are worried about losing an important email drop it in the sent folder. If not just have it deleted.


Robert


Dec 12, 2012 6:53 PM in response to skoussouris

Ok this starting bugging me again, so I went looking at it some more.


Here is what I found:


The only email account I am having issues with is the one with the full email address as my username, the other 2 don't contain a @ in the username. I have 2 gmail accounts, one is a google apps for business account which has to have the full address as the username. The @ sign is converted to a "%40" in the pref file. I am thinking this is where the problem happens.


What is everyone seeing it happen under, an account with the email as the username (user@domain.com), or an actual username (user)?

Jun 7, 2013 8:40 AM in response to pitagora

10.8.4 did not fix this issue for me, but it did have me set almost everything up again, at least everything relating to icloud. I actually just migrated every user here from our old server to our new one and one person had some mail issues after a day, To resolve them, I went and deleted the mail preference file and reconfigured mail, and it resolved them. I am going to give that a try with my computer today, I will post back steps if it works, or if not I will post back stating that. We'll see.

Oct 5, 2015 2:09 PM in response to phineas8

Ok, I have found it is a problem with the preferences. The solution was simple, should have done this a long time ago. Here is what I did:


1) Quit Mail

2) Open Finder.

3) Open the "Go" menu, hold the alt key, the select Library from "Go" menu.

4) Open the Mail folder, then delete or rename the "V2" folder.

5) Open Mail and setup again. Once Mail completes setup, it will remove the renamed "V2" folder (if you renamed instead of deleting).


Hope this helps.

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