Mail: Name is Holidays in United Kingdom

Me again! So... I have found two potential solutions:

1. Go to your MAC Calendar and de-select the 'holidays in united kingdom' boxes

2. Go to your GMAIL account, select your gmail calendar (found on the top right corner, click on the 9 little square boxes icon, select calendar. Look at the left navigation panel, and click settings in the drop down arrow on 'other calendars'. At the bottom of the list you will see 'Holidays in the United Kingdom' - to the right you will see that you can 'unsubscribe' from this calendar. Do that.

I have undertaken both these actions, so hopefully I have sorted the issue. Unless I write again, assume it's the solution! Hope it works for you.

Thanks

Hi Deeloe

For me the issue Holidays in United Kingdom seemed to be coming from the Google calendar of that name in my calendars, see screen shot below.

If your calendar has this entry click on the tile and rename it, I used 'Google apps'. After closing mail and restarting the issue went away. I did also de select the calendar. This all occurred as we have a shared Google apps account but only use it for a calendar and not for mail but we have to have a mail address associated with the Google account, in our case info@consulteast.co.uk. This means that there was no google mail account on the Macs and for some reason they seemed to pick up the first name in the Google calendar list instead.

I think there may be multiple causes of this issue so it may not work for you but worth a try as it is quick easy and safe to do.

This might help to shed some light - would appear that it's a big problem in the states, either that or they like to shout about it a bit louder! 🙂

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!searchin/gmail/Holidays%7Csort:date/gma il/qvAg3NmPpSs/NX_V5B31B0QJ

Hi,

I too am having the same problem. I have taken your advice but the problem is still there. I found that if I send my gmail account an e mail from my iCloud email address the sent e mail comes up from me. However if I send it t=via my hotmail account it appears from the holidays in the united kingdom. I have used my hotmail account details as a way of recovering my gmail account so they are linked. Is that why this is happening?

I have contemplated completely deleting my gmail account and just sticking to iCloud?

This is seriously getting on my nerves now.

I had this issue. I am using a Google calendar and use the email info@consulteast.co.uk as the account ID but do not use that email through Google. As a result the Google Internet account on my Mac does not have email included, it just has calendar. The first Google calendar in the list of calendars is called Holidays in United Kingdom. Unsubscribing did not seem to make a difference, although this may be because I did not restart, but changing the name to Google Apps fixed the issue. On the Macbook Air it did not need restart but on the Mac it did. I chose Google Apps as the emails in question were generated by scripts run after data submission via forms. This leaves the Google calendar with a mis leading name but that is better than the email appearing as it did. Al of this only occurs on my Mac email client, iPhone is fine, but if you forward the email it will retain the Holidays in United Kingdom. At first I thought this was a holiday business but its not, its just the name of the first listed Google calendar.

Hi John

I'm really struggling to get rid of this 'Holidays in United Kingdom' as well without any success. My Gmail address has been replaced with the name ‘Holidays in United Kingdom’ on incoming mail. If I click on down arrow in the address line displaying ‘Holidays in United Kingdon” I see my correct gmail address on the incoming mail. I'm using a MacBook Pro and an iPhone 5 running the latest version of software. Any chance of a step by step dummies guide please?

I am a bit useless so take with a pinch of salt - however, I had this problem and after hours on the phone to support lines, read up on the advice - I tried changing the settings in calendar as well as removing from previous recipients advice - neither worked. So - I added the dodgy email address to my contacts, and went in and edited out the holidays in the uk bit. It worked.

Hello all,

I had this problem for ages and it was driving me insane.

I don't know the root of the problem, but to fix it what I did was: Go to mail - click window (at the very top of the screen) - click "previous recipients" - select the one you don't want - "remove from list".

I only did this within the last 10 minutes so I haven't road tested it. It might come back. I hope it doesn't.

Cheers,

Oli

Hi,

My mac has been doing this for months and its really been driving me mad.

What has seemed to work for me is drafting a new email to myself in the mail app.
If you address it to the account that is bothering you and click away. Then on the drop down option attached to the address in the recipients bar click 'remove from previous recipients list'. Open another mail and type your email address in, click to edit and give yourself the name you want in the speech marks. Send the email to yourself.

Seems to work for me.

Hope this helps!

Thank goodness for Apple Support Communities! I am laughing because shortly after moving to Slovakia in January this year (from Canada) I noticed my alias on apple Mail was suddenly changed to "Holidays in Slovakia". All this time I thought this was just "my" problem! Slovakia is not the most "up and up" country so I thought something dodgy happened to my mail account. I thought it was a malicious joke of some kind! Bahahahaha. I don't use my email address professionally so I lived with the embarrassment up until now. I went into Calendar as one member suggested to remove "holidays in ...." but my calendar has "Holidays in Canada" listed, not "Holidays in Slovakia"! Finally, what worked was going into Apple Contacts, Previous Recipients and removed the Holidays in Slovakia email.

How does this happen in the first place anyway? It seems to happen all over the world. I've read about someone having "Holidays in Italy" as an alias too!

Too funny...ok, not that funny for some people. If someone figures how we ended up with those ridiculous alias please post it for us to see!

Hi,

My name was shown as "week days" for a year! I added my (Gmail)email address to my contacts and this solved the problem for me!

Around 6-7 years ago I subscribed to a calendar called week numbers on iCal. I thought that I unsubscribed a long time ago. Well, about a year ago when I had to reinstall my Gmail account in Apple Mail, my name was suddenly shown as "week days". I still don't understand where the link to "week days"-came from. Can't neither find the active subscription in my iCal preferences nor in Google Calendar preferences. It's not active and not visible but is obviously still somewhere in the system, since it interferes with Mail.

The following solution worked for me... Go to your contacts and find your own contact—that’s the one marked “me.” Then hit “edit,” “add email,” and add your Gmail address. Add your name as contact and for reasons beyond my comprehension, Holidays in United Kingdom (or wherever) should now be replaced with your real name in the Mail app.

If you go to Mail, select preferences, go to the Accounts pane (2nd tab), then look at your Gmail account, what is the value in the "Full Name" field? Make sure it's your actual name.

That's just so odd.

I'm sorry to put you in the midst of a bunch of companies pointing fingers at each other, but I simply can't fathom how it could be Apple Mail doing this 😐