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Q: Mail lists the wrong person in From line, sign of larger issues?

I am using Apple Mail with an Exchange account. I am getting email in my inbox where the person's name in the From line does not match the person that sent me the email.

 

I am concerned that this may be an odd bug due to how Mail (and Apple in general) deals with Exchange accounts. When I go to my Contacts, I can see that I have created two contact cards for the person that is listed in the From line, one card in Exchange and one card in iCloud. I am not even sure if this is creating the odd behavior with the From line, but I also had major problems with how Mail deals with my contacts when I am attempting to send bulk email to a group in Contacts, and if I did not have people in both Exchange and iCloud contacts, that person would be left out of the group email. Other than this use in my hands, I cannot think of why Mail would be placing people's names where they don't belong.

 

Other ideas?

OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)

Posted on Sep 22, 2016 8:04 AM