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Hello,
I am using mail for Mac OS in Sonoma. I am not sure how or when but both my Macs (Studio and Air) suddenly have an strange email address after the remitent on every mail, this happens in 100% of my emails old and new as well as in the two Macs. Take a look:

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I have called Apple Support and I am now at third level assistance. They were unable to fix it after 90 minutes.

At this moment I know:

  • If I create a new user the issue does not repeat
  • The email is not “clickable” it is just plain text there
  • Replying does not include the address

Any clue on how to remove this? Thank you.

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This definitely looks suspicious so I would not email any files in response to this message.

FYI, it is easy to change the return address on an email. I could send you an email with a return address of President@whitehouse.gov but an examination of the message headers would reveal the real source of the message.

I would wait to hear from Apple Support.

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Did you ever figure this out? I am having the same problem.

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I don’t have this issue but I wonder if you’re using an iCloud email or maybe a hide-my-email address? I wonder if it’s some weird mapping.

See if you can view the source of the email to see where it’s actually coming from.

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It’s across every account type. All are either gmail or fastmail for me.

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And actually for me it is appearing as part of my ‘to’ address.

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Can you view the source of the email? When you login to gmail/fastmail on the website, it shows the email correctly?

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This is the message header ID in < >. You can turn it off by Settings > Viewing > Show Message Headers and change to Default. For some reason, mine had been changed to ‘Custom’. Hope that helps.