Apple mail sender's name

Question

Hi there,
I was wondering whether you could help me. Actually, it's not a big problem, but it really bugs me. The thing is, whenever I send an email to myself or receive an email from an Apple related email address, using Apple Mail, I see a different name (actually, not even a name - some random words) in the "To:" line instead of my name or my email address. I am quite sure it is a problem with Apple, because I am using Gmail account and there is no problem whenever I check directly from the gmail.com website. I cannot find how could I change those settings. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Try this.
AK
click here to open this script in your editor<pre style="font-family: 'Monaco', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; overflow:auto; color: #222; background: #DDD; padding: 0.2em; font-size: 10px; width:400px">-- speak the sender of mail paassed by rule or selected in the Mail app
-- AK Dec 2007
using terms from application "Mail"
on perform mail action with messages theMsges
tell application "Mail"
repeat with AMessage in theMsges
set WhoSentIt to (extract name from sender of AMessage)
if (count of WhoSentIt) > 0 then say "Mail from " & WhoSentIt
end repeat
end tell
end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from
using terms from application "Mail"
on run
tell application "Mail" to set sel to selection
tell me to perform mail action with messages (sel)
end run
end using terms from
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