I'm thinking the confusion starts from a false premise. If you have multiple email addresses, you are going to get multiple copies of the message. The external world doesn't realize that two addresses are going to go to the same endpoint, so nobody combines the messages into one. You will be reading only one of these copies (at a time), and if you reply to it, it will use whatever account that one went to.
On Feb 16, 2012, at 11:08 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: > If you have multiple accounts in Lion Mail and if you receive an email that > has more than one of those accounts in the recipient list, what's the > algorithm Lion Mail uses to determine which email address will be used when > replying? Sure, you can choose from the FROM: popup, but Mail will > automatically choose an address. > > I think in the past (Leopard, SL?), it would choose the FIRST email account > in the recipient list of the incoming email. But I'm not sure that is true > anymore. > I can't test it because I have just one account. I'm trying to help a friend > solve a problem: > > He and his wife share the same USER account on their iMac, but they each have > their own separate MobileMe (now iCloud) accounts. > If an incoming email is addressed to both of them, and when they reply, they > often end up using the other person's email address in the reply. > They haven't gotten in the habit of checking the FROM address nor selecting > an address from the FROM popup. > > I've suggested they either check the FROM popup each time when replying, or > they set up individual user accounts on the their computer to keep their > email separate. > > Anybody know how Mail determines what address to use when replying if you > have several accounts and if you receive an email with some or all of those > accounts in the recipient list? > > Thanks, > Kevin > > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
