Mail.app uses wrong e-mail to reply from

Originator:jeff.lamarche
Number:rdar://9787815 Date Originated:16-Jul-2011 10:04 AM
Status:Open Resolved:
Product:Mac O SX Product Version:Lion 10.7 GM
Classification:UI / Usability Reproducible:Always
 
16-Jul-2011 10:04 AM Jeff LaMarche:
When replying to an e-mail from a .mac address, if the e-mail was address to foo@mac.com, the reply uses foo@me.com as the "from" address.

While they are the same address, and I understand Apple wanting to encourage people to use the newer .me address, this causes serious problems with mailing lists that only allow members to post. As far as listserv's are concerned, foo@mac.com and foo@me.com are too completely different e-mail addresses, and if you signed up with foo@mac.com, an e-mail from foo@me.com will get rejected.

This means you have to manually remember to change the "from" e-mail account every time you reply to an e-mail, or unsubscribe and re-subscribe using @me.com. The former is a pain and results in a lot of rejected e-mails. The latter is also a pain in that you lose continuity.

If Apple had communicated that @mac.com was deprecated, this would be understandable, but all communication on this subject has been clear that @me.com was preferred, but that we could continue to use @mac.com indefinitely. If that hasn't changed, Mail.app's behavior in Lion really should.

Steps to Reproduce:

1) Reply to an e-mail that's addressed to @mac.com
2) Look at "from" drop down box
3) Notice "@me.com" from address
4) Mutter under your breath.

Comments

I think this works as expected - you only have @me.com configured as an address for the .mac account so that's what Mail will use for the reply.

Just add foo@mac.com as one more email address for the account (Preferences > Accounts > .mac account > Email Address

(separated by a comma)

And it will work the way you want.

By f at July 24, 2011, 12:37 p.m. (reply...)

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