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Hello,
Having an odd problem with Mac Mail. We just switched to Gmail and it's been working fine for about two weeks until this. I have a computer with 4 users using Mac Mail. It's been that way for about 4 years now. What happens is this...
When one of the users sends out an email, somewhere along the line the return address is getting changed to another user of that computer. So for example: Joe Brown ([email protected]) is what his email address SHOULD look like in the return address. But for some reason it is this: Joe Brown ([email protected]) Whenever someone replies to Joe's email, it gets sent to Steve's mailbox instead due to the wrong email address.
Things I've tried.
1. Rebuilt the mailboxes
2. Deleted all the accounts and started over
3. Repaired Permissions
4. Made sure there's enough space on the computer (In the past, odd problems have crept up because there wasn't enough disk space.
At first it seems to be fixed but eventually it all starts over again...
HEEEEELP!!
Thank you - Randy

Randy,
Is it always the same user in the return address ?
And can we assume that whatever email address is involved it ends up with a return address at gmail.com or googlemail.com (or other GMail variant) ?
could be the smtp login used for all the mail has been set to an address on gmail. I don't use OSX Mail, but I use this feature in Entourage, I can send mail from any of my email addresses - some by different ISPs who would normally require me to dial in to their network to send mail, Gmail allows me to use their SMTP server to send mail from my other ISP mail account.
A consequence of this is that any replies come back to my gmail (googlemail.com in my case) account.
This doesn't happen by default, I needed to set some preferences on gmail, key a few passwords, etc. Can't check your gmail settings, but start by checking the SMTP server, and login, used for each user sending mail.

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