Is there a way to get this to work for the “To” field when sending a message? I’m sending a message to my work address, and I want to be sure that it is going to my work email address.
Currently. It is just showing my name in the “TO” field, and so I cannot see the recipient email address.
In “Viewing” settings, I have “x-envelope-from” in view, and "Use smart addresses disabled.
I don’t see any address display options in the “compose” field, but maybe there is an advanced setting that I’m missing.
Thanks!
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If you disable “Use Smart Addresses” in Settings > Viewing, Apple Mail will display recipients’ names and email addresses.
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Read my post again. I already disabled smart addresses. That only affects reading view, not composing view.
When I compose a message, the names in the To field have a dropdown that shows the selected and available addresses for the name. If I select “edit” it will show the name and address in the To field.
Correct. So what I want to accomplish is to not have to click on anything in order to reveal the address. But rather, the recipient email address is displayed by default.
When I compose a message with “Use Smart Addresses” disabled, the recipient’s name and email address appear in the compose window as I would expect (I apologize for not noticing that you’ve already tried this setting); I don’t have to click a dropdown to reveal this information.
Is your work address in Contacts or just Previous Recipients? If not, maybe try adding it to Contact to see if it makes a difference.
Also, if recipients are in a directory service (e.g., Exchange, LDAP), I’m not sure whether Apple Mail would display their name and email address even if “Use Smart Addresses” is disabled. I’m not familiar with all of the intricacies of Apple Mail, so take this with a grain of salt.
