Mail changes my name to some odd contact or calendar group

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Mail changes my name to some odd contact or calendar group

For some strange reason Mail is showing my name as "Holidays in the United States" over the last week or so - prior to that it was "Gateway Tenants Action." The "Holidays ..." name is one of my calendar groups and the "Gateway ..." name is one of my Contract groups. I don't have the slightest idea why this is happening and I cannot find any relation between these names and myself in any part of the Contacts program. I had thought this was a bug in Mavericks but it is happening in Yosemite too. Any suggestions????????

[iOS 10.10, Mail 9.0, Contacts 9.0 on a Mac Mini [late 2012].

iPhone 4, iOS 5.1.1

Posted on Nov 6, 2014 8:20 AM

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Answer 1

evolvux

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Nov 10, 2014 5:00 PM in response to kmplawesq

This was driving me nuts too! Mine has been saying "Holiday In The United States" for several weeks.

Here's what I did and seems to be solved for now:

In Mail, click on the "Holiday In The United States" label (should have a little down arrow), so you get the dropdown menu.
Select "Remove from Previous Recipients List"
Close and re-open Mail

After doing this, I'm now just seeing my email address. Hope this helps!

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kmplawesq Author

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Nov 18, 2014 12:34 PM in response to evolvux

So far, I've not had the problem again since I did the "remove from previous recipients list" but I cannot say I'm all that sanguine about it not popping up again on either the original contact or some other.

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Answer 3

lee0001

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Nov 13, 2014 6:21 PM in response to kmplawesq

Had the same issue and noticed that the affected email address wasn't part of my own entry in Contacts. I added it, restarted Mail, and now it displays my name instead of "Holidays in ....."

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Answer 4

evolvux

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Nov 13, 2014 7:25 PM in response to kmplawesq

Well, the issue came back for me, so I'm going to try lee0001's solution.

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