My outgoing mail on my .me account is sent with my husband's name instead of mine.

My outgoing mail on my IMAC is showing my husband's name on my @me.com mailbox. How do I change it?

Change the contact card (in Contacts) so that your card is marked as the 'Me' card.
If you're sharing the same iMac and the same user account one of the two of you will always be wrong, are you?

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Outgoing mail document that refuses to be sent but also refuses to be deleted.

I've got an outgoing mail message that refuses to be sent but also refuses to be deleted. It's really frustrating! I've tried pressing return and then quickly delete- quitting mail- restarting the computer- but the message keeps popping up. HELP!

Quit Mail, Trash this file...
Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), use Disk Utility from there to Repair Permissions, test if things work OK in Safe Mode.
Then move these files to the Desktop for now...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
Reboot & test.
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.

How do I stop all outgoing mail from being stored in my sent folder?

How do I stop all outgoing mail from being stored in my sent folder?

You cannot, but you can delete the mail in your Sent folder.

My mother used to be the bill payer on my iTunes account so now every time I send an email from my iCloud account it sent with her name, how can I change the settings so emails are sent from myself?

My mother used to be the bill payer on my iTunes account so now every time I send an email from my iCloud account it sent with her name, how can I change the settings so emails are sent from myself?
I've changed the bill payer to myself but it stills says on emails that I sent that its from my mother.

In order for the "From" field to show you options on the "from" addresses available, you must set them up in the Preferences > Accounts first.
I can't show you a screen shot of the from field because I currently only have one account, so the from address used is the default. However, when I had more than one, then options will show up in your compose/reply window.
You'd need to add an account here:

Apple mail problem message reads - Account removal failed with error: "The operation couldn't be completed. Unable to find an account for the UID given.".

Account removal failed with error: “The operation couldn’t be completed. Unable to find an account for the UID given.”. - trying to remove account but get this message please help

Try to remove the account in the Internet Accounts preference pane.

How do I create a second account with my husband's name and email address?

My account works fine. I read about Profile Manager, but couldn't find it. I can find Account 1 with my name. I see Account 2 listed, but no name or email address even though I typed that information into some form along the way.

Assuming that you are happy to share Thunderbird, and be able to see each others' messages, then there's no need for the profile manager.
If you want to keep things separate, then it's better to set up separate user accounts in the operating system. Each of you would then have your own private space for data and settings, including each having your own Thunderbird profile.
So, your husband already has his own distinct email address and account, set up with an email provider?
In Thunderbird, you'd use '''File|New|Existing Mail Account…''' (in the traditional menu) or '''[≡]|New Message|Existing Mail Account…''' (with the Application Menu button) to add his account to Thunderbird. I think you may have already done this given that you say you have entered the email address (and its password?) already.
I think at this point a screenshot of Thunderbird may help us understand what you do and do not see.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-create-screenshot-my-problem
Use Paint or similar to blot out any data you'd prefer not to share.

Hi can anyone help with this! I upgraded my PC and when I plug my iphone in itunes loads up with all my daughters music instead of mine. How do I make it so only my account appears?

Hi, can anyone help with this one. I recently upgraded my computer and downloaded itunes again. Now when I plug in my iphone my daughters account comes up instead of mine???

Try assigning Queen as the Album Artist on the compilations in iTunes on your computer.

Mail suddenly not seeing accounts - acting erratically with new ones

When I turned on my Mac and launched Mail, I was prompted with a "Welcome to Mail" screen which would not let me proceed until I setup a new email account.
I have been using 3 accounts on this machine since I got it early this year. They were IMAP accounts, and they were all gone.
So I added one of them back, and then there appeared to be an indexing problem - when I would click on any message after X date in the message list, the wrong message would appear in the preview pane.
After looking online, I moved the Envelope Index to the desktop, which triggered a re-import of the messages. Now the indexing works, but...
At this point, I am not receiving new messages, even when I hit "Get Mail." I know the messages are there, as I see them on my iPhone and they forward to a web mail account.
Any ideas on how to rectify this? I feel like I'm using Windows!

I did some more research and found that it simply won't download any mails beyond UID UID259987-1153548583. So I edited "MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded2" to tell it that it hasn't downloaded that UID yet, and then told it to check mail again.
The activity window then suddenly sees that it needs to download over 3000 new e-mails... however, it downloads only one e-mail (the one with the UID I mentioned) and then suddenly stops, without downloading the remaining mails.
So I went into Telnet and deleted the e-mail with that UID, and tried again. Nothing happened. I edited "MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded2" again and now it only downloads mails up to one UID lower than the one I mentioned (UID259986-1153548583).
I deleted a bunch of other messages after the "stuck message" via Telnet too, but no luck so far. So right now there's a gap, like this:
3857 UID259985-1153548583
3858 UID259986-1153548583
3859 UID259994-1153548583
3860 UID259995-1153548583
And Mail.app plain simply refuses to download 3859 and anything beyond that UID.
I'm troubled because this happens with two separate Mail.apps, and I have absolutely no idea how to fix it or what even causes this!

How do i redeem my card to my account, i sent it to a email that was not mine or anyones and it sent a message to redeem. but i dont have that email and i can not redeem it. how do i redeem a card in the wrong email??? please help ASAP its alot of money.

my account sent out a email to redeem the card and i sent it too the wrong emial, which is a non-active emial. how do i redeem that card again? the emial i sent it to is now 1 of 3 of my emials and the itunes didnt send the redeem email to that account. the card is un-redeem able. can you please help me. the card has alot and means alot to me, because it was a present. please help me.

As long the email that you sent it to doesn't exist and it hasn't been redeemed then you should be able to try resending it : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1541

How to get Mail to recognise correct account?

I changed ISPs about 3 months ago and got a new email address.
I keep both my old and new accounts as I still have mail being forwarded from the old account.
In Mail > Preferences> Accounts I have the current account above the older one and everything seems set up correctly. It is also correct in my Network settings and my Address Book.
However whenever I send an email it defaults to the old address as the sendee.
How can I fix this and what is the logic behind Mail's behaviour which has always had me puzzled?

You mean the new one is imap, right? smtp is for sending mail, pop and imap for receiving. Both pop and imap style accounts use smtp for sending.
OK so, you are correct, you don't want to delete the old pop mail account because you will lose all your old email.
However, have you tried deleting just the old smtp server information from Preferences | Accounts | {old account} | Account Information | Outgoing Mail Server pulldown menu | Edit Server List? If the outgoing mail server information no longer exists on your computer, then you shouldn't be able to send mail through that server. Then just specify the new account's smtp server for outgoing mail for the old account. (However, be advised that you should specify your new email address in the old account, which you probably want to do anyways, and differentiate between the two accounts by the "Description" fields in each account's Account Information panel. OR, specify "None" for the outgoing server. (That may have the undesirable effect of messages hanging out in your oubox, though).
As an unrelated side note, I know you can do this with imap accounts, and that is to drag messages from one imap account's inbox to another imap account's inbox. But I don't have any pop accounts so don't know if you can do a drag and drop from the pop messages stored locally on your computer into an imap inbox, where the messages are stored on a remote server (and optionally, off-line copies maintained locally on your computer. But, like I said, remote imap to another remote imap? No problem. Maybe you could give that a try with an old popmail message or two, that you could afford to lose, and see what happens...
To answer your Windows comparison question, I've not ever experienced these kinds of Mail problems on my Mac.

How to set a default "from" field on outgoing Mail message

i read through the last few pages of this support forum and googled my topic but i havent found a suitable solution.
in Mail v 3 (3.4) there is a "From:" field in any outgoing mail. very useful for those of us with multiple non-accounts and/or .Mac aliases. i generally set a specific outgoing mail server (so that field is removed from outgoing email).
my problem is how to set a default outgoing email address so that my recipients always get from a certain (eg work) email address when i am at work. at work, anything i send, i want to show my work email without always having to manually select the "FROM" field in the outgoing email.
( aside: i had read that Mail version 3 was supposed to auto-select any reply so that the reply would come from the same email i orginally sent as. this does not work on my mac.)
This problem is exacerbated as Mail auto-rotates between my 4 email accounts/aliases (which are all listed (correctly) in the FROM field. it would be great if this list could be fixed with a default FROM address.
eg i send an email from my work email address (FROM: [email protected]) the next email i send will be rotated through my list of .mac aliases. i.e. the next email i send will not be from [email protected], but from [email protected] the next time it might move on to [email protected] or it might revert to [email protected]
any thoughts on how to fix?
i have tried deleting the home/library/preferences/com.apple.mail.plist. that is fine, but any .mac aliases (which i do use, but i dont want to be listed in the "FROM" field) are listed in the "FROM" field, and are auto-switched through my Mail again.
i looked through Rules and Automator, but no obvious help there. any thoughts?

Did you try Preferences > Accounts > Account Information and entering these other email aliases in the Email Address: field, separated by commas? That would give you a pop-down menu in the New Message window letting you choose which alias to use when sending an email.
If you go to Preferences > Composing, there should be a pop-down menu near the middle of that window labeled "Send new mail from:" which will let you choose any email address you have entered in the Account Information field mentioned above, or "Account of last viewed mailbox" as the default.
Mulder

Thunderbird incompatible with centurytel outgoing mail

Centurytel is "upgrading" their mail servers, and a recent upgrade is causing a very odd problem: Thunderbird can now send outgoing mails using my Centurytel account to some domains and not others. I.e. sent mails to a godaddy hosted email address is bounced with the error:
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<[email protected]>
(reason: 554-p3pismtp01-058.prod.phx3.secureserver.net)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
554 5.0.0 Service unavailable
but some sent emails are sent successfully to other domains, such as the att.net domain.
The same Thunderbird client can still send outgoing mail to ANY domain using both a GoDaddy-hosted email account and an AT&T hosted email account.
I just spent over an hour with third level Centurytel techs and since this problem does not occur in Outlook or the Centurytel Webmail app, they determined it is a Thunderbird issue.
Wonderful. Any ideas?

Matt said:
>>All we can do is guess...
Agreed, I was bummed when they dropped the case. The 3rd level Centurytel tech either didn't know, or wouldn't tell me what mail server package they used, so I couldn't follow up with that vendor.
The issue is tied to some aspect of the header formatting or content as created in T'bird. I ran tests using Outlook from here and had zero problems with my mails being delivered to any other mail server or domain. I also used the Centurytel Webmail client and had no problems.
I also sent messages created in T'bird and sent them with no problkem through an AT&T and GoDaddy account and didn't have any delivery issues. Only when I create and send the message from T'bird and deliver it through the Centurytel mail server does the selective delivery behavior rear it's ugly head...go figure.
I've used T'bird since it came out years ago and love it...but this is getting in the way, and my email addy is legacy and I am loathe to abandon it. I may have to change my email client to, *urp* Outlook or something else...
Thank you for checking in on this, Matt! If you think it would help I can send you the transcript of the rejected mail?
Cheers,
Howard Hoyt

Outgoing mail has completely died... Help...

Hey all,
This is the weirdest thing.
All my outgoing mail is frozen in the outbox.
Eventually I get the error message
"The server at mail.stevelevine.com cannot be contacted on any of the default ports.
Select a different outgoing mail server fromt he list below or try later to leave the message in your outbox until it can be sent."
Note that this has nothing to do with any of the outgoing servers. I have 6 or 7 on this mail system and the same is suddenly happening with all of them.
Tried quitting mail, rebooting, clearing everyone out of the outbox and trying again.
Two Notes:
Incoming mail is working fine on this MacBook.
Outgoing mail is working fine on my IMac, with all the same settings, internet connection etc.
Tried using a different internet connection and experienced the same thing.
I'm really good at this stuff, but I am completely stumped on this one.
Any ideas?
Steve

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When you initially set up your Mac, you were offered the opportunity to snap a photo of yourself in order to associate your photo with your user account on the computer. If you declined the photo I think the Mac will pick or suggest a picture from the preinstalled selections in the accounts pane of the system preferences. You can change the picture but you cannot delete it totally. That picture is part of your ID for that user account on the Mac.
If you want to change it, Open System Preferences and click on accounts. Click on your account to change the picture. You will have to unlock the preference in the bottom left corner - and to do that - you need to enter your password. Click on the picture of the Eagle and then all of the preinstalled photo choices pop up in another window. Select another photo and then clcik the lock icon again when you are done.

Mail can't change outgoing mail server

Trying to change the outgoing mail server for email accounts (POP and IMAP) - the field in the Preferences -> Accounts panel is disabled. Disabled. Why? My ISP moved to new servers and I can't access email until I update the account preferences. What the ????

Hello Andrew Macrae,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
From your post I understand that you are trying to change your Mail account's outgoing mail server. To do this, please follow the steps below where you are able to edit your outgoing server information.
Choose Mail > Preferences, then click Accounts.
Select an account.
Click Account Information, then review the server being used for outgoing messages.
If None is selected, click the Outgoing Mail Server pop-up menu, then choose a different server.
Make sure the selected server is one specified by your account provider and that the server name is spelled correctly. Click the Outgoing Mail Server pop-up menu, choose Edit SMTP Server List, then review or enter information as directed by your provider.
If you contact your provider about the server, use the form in this Apple Support article to record Mail settings you might need for configuring the server.
Apple Support article: Mail settings you might need from your emal provider
If the server is obsolete, click the Outgoing Mail Server pop-up menu, choose Edit SMTP Server List, select the server, then click Remove . Don’t remove a server that’s in use by an account unless you’re ready to add a different server for the account.
Test your changes by sending yourself a message.
Verify an account’s outgoing mail server - Mail Help
Take care,
Alex H.

Automatic Copy of Outgoing Mail?

Hey Gang!
is there a way to set Mail - on a certain Account - to automatically send a copy of each outgoing mail (from that certain account) to a given email address?
maybe with an Automator script?
thanks!
Gabstero

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I set up my OS X 10.6.2 Mail accounts to send an automatic copy of outgoing e-mail messages to an e-mail account.
and how did you do that? there is an option in mail preferences->composing to automatically cc yourself. is this what you did?
I want to turn that option off. I cannot seem to find the option to do so. Can anyone help me?

My outgoing mail on my .me account is sent with my husband's name instead of mine.

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