Mail: Name is Holidays in United Kingdom

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!

What else is it going to be? It happens to many users.

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!

Gmail name comes up as Holidays in the United States

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.