Mail Reply to All

[rwilkerson]

I'm not sure if this is a switcher question, exactly, since Thunderbird on Windows does the same thing, but I'm so new to Mac that it may qualify anyway.

In Mail, replying to all *literally* replies to all recipients - including me. Since I'm sending the reply, I don't particularly need a copy for myself. Is there any way to change this, ahem, feature? I didn't care for it in Thunderbird and I don't care for it in Mail so I'd love to be able to disable that option, but I can't find any way to do so.

Any guidance would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Rob Wilkerson

[bobw]

Go to Mail>Preferences...>Composing and make sure that you have unchecked "Automatically (Cc myself.

[rwilkerson]

I am not automatically CC'd. Thanks. Any other thoughts? Do others not see this behavior?

[bobw]

Quit Mail, Open Address Book, and click on the card with your name, then select Card>Make This My Card. If that selection is grayed out, add a new card, make it "My Card" and delete the old "My Card."

If none of that proves helpful, go to Mail>Window>Previous Recipients and remove your address if it is on that list.

[fryke]

I do see this behaviour - and it's intended that way. You'll have to remove your address from the field(s) manually...

[billbaloney]

If the mail sent to you has been sent to an address that forwards to your actual address, Mail may not know to prune your forwarding address from the list of CC recipients. Do you have any addresses forwarding to other addresses?

[rwilkerson]

I don't. Based on fryke's response, the behavior I'm seeing is just the way it is and there's no user-option to change that.

[billbaloney]

I only ask because I've been using Mail for five years or more and have never encountered this problem. I think that bobw's line of inquiry was correct, and that there is some configuration problem that's keeping Mail from understanding your address. It should not be including you on "Reply to all"; it should be following the default behavior of any mail application, which is to exclude the sender's address when replying to all recipients.