Mail reply-to, redirects and forwarding ...

[Paul Sargent]

On Dec 17, 2007 3:52 AM, Charles Jacobs <cjacobs at mac.com> wrote:

>
> Zany! Mail.app also seems to utterly fail at reply-alling if you have
> 2 .mac accounts set up. If you receive a message addressed to both
> accounts and reply-all, it will _not_ send the reply to the address of
> the account you aren't replying from. So in addition to accidentally
> replying _from_ the wrong person, we're also often inadvertently not
> including the other person when we're reply-alling.
>

Mail must be doing that on purpose because it's actually making a decision
to remove an address from the list.

If you think about the case when this set-up is being used by one person,
but with two accounts, it makes sense.

* Somebody e-mails you at all your addresses. They don't know which one you
check, so they spam all of them.
* You receive multiple copies.
* You respond. The from address is set to your main address, any other
addresses that it knows will result in duplicates are removed.
* People reply to you, and you get one copy of each mail to your main
account.

The "problem" is that Mail is assuming that one user account = one user.
That's by design.

Thunderbird may deal with your situation better as it's often used on
Windows machines where this one-user-for-everyone set-up is far more common.
It's quite a change from Mail.app though.
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