Incoming Mail display name

In Mail (v. 7.1), I sometimes get mail addressed to me as "My Husband" and sometimes as my actual ID as it appears in my address book. How can I stop it from showing as "My Husband"?

I don't understand why you'd want to do that, since everyone has a first and last name. Nonetheless, it can be done, but you won't like what you have to do. You have one option:
Quit Address Book and go to Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook and Get Info on the AddressBook.data file and check the box that says "Locked". Now no changes can be made to Address Book: you can't Add, Edit, or Delete any cards unless you first unlock the file, make the changes you like, and then lock the file again.
Mulder

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It is only the link to your emails which are 'stored' on your iPad. You will have to enter all proper email addresses to get the message associated with them, which, in practice, means multiple accounts. If all still does not work try a Reset [Hold the Home and Sleep/Wake buttons down together for 10 seconds or so (until the Apple logo appears) and then release].

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This morning my iCloud email stopped working. When I open the Mail preferences panel and look at the iCloud account, the Incoming Mail Server is listed as "mail.example.com" and is greyed out. I cannot edit this entry to the proper iCloud server name. I can edit my user name and password, but when I try to save changes it tells me that I cannot leave the Incoming Mail Server name blank. Which wouldn't be a problem if I could, you know, change it.
This just started this morning. I noticed that Mail was asking me for passwords that have been in my Keychain for ages, and I had to manually enter them all to get to my email.
My account is working on my iOS devices.
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Looked around on other threads on Apple Support and found a solution that worked for me.
    - Delete your iCloud account in Mail Preferences, Account tab.
     - Click "+" to add an account
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     - Proceed creating your account.
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Your email address was added to the contact that keeps showing up (this happened to me when I added a contact's information from an email through mails automatic feature). Go to that contact, you'll probably see your email address there, and just delete or change it.

Mail: Display Name in "To:" Field

Hi,
In the mail app To: field a display name is associated with an email address. For a particular email address I want to remove this association.
(apols this is difficult to explain).
I am a member of an email group called TriLondon (at) yahoogroups (dot) co (dot) uk. A while back I wanted to be able to send automated reminders to this group via iCal. As I remember at the time I added this email as part of my profile in address book. When I recieve a message from this group the from field displays "Steven Lord" (ie my name) and when I send to it the to field displays "Steven Lord".
This is now very confusing and I no longer want this associated. I have removed that email address from my profile in address book but still if I recieve an email or send an email to TriLondon (at) yahoogroups (dot) co (dot) uk it shows as Steven Lord in the to / from field.
HELP !! I'm pulling my hair out trying to fix this.
<Edited by Moderator>

I don't have to log in to send to this group.
Before any of this happened I could send an email to that group from Mail app on my mac. In order to be able to automatically send reminders to that group via iCal (I no longer need to be able to do this) I added an address to my profile in Address App. So I added the email address under my card in Address App.
That resulted in any mail being received from the above group being labelled as coming from me.. ie Steven Lord. It's annoying and I've finally decided to try and sort it out.
So...
In Address App I've removed the email address trilondon 'at' etc... from my card in there. However, within Mail app any email coming from that email address is still labelled as Steven Lord.

Incoming Mail Server Name

I am trying to set-up Mail accessing from an Exchange server. I have tried setting up an Exchange account and also an IMAP account, based on what I have read on these forums, but have been unable to receive mail. I can send to my hearts delight, but not receive. I'm wondering if I have my naming convention is right. If I have the Outgoing Mail server set-up as: smtp.exxon.com... then shouldn't my Incoming Mail Server be mail.exxon.com? I've seen several posts regarding this same problem, but I can't seem to find answer to it. Any help much appreciated.
Using Mac G4, System 10.4.7

Wait a minute... I just re-read your response...
if your sever is called smtp.exxon.com then your
incoming mail server will also be called
smtp.exxon.com.<
My incoming and outgoing are supposed to be named the
same thing?
My account at home is not set-up that way. Please
advise.</div>
Yes, the should be named the same... this is unless you have mail.exxon.com as well. But no harm in trying it with smtp.exxon.com. There shouldn't be any harm in that.
Cheers
-T

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My incoming mail messages on my MacBook suddenly stopped coming in yesterday. I changed nothing, but now it says I have the wrong password. I checked my incoming mail server settings and think this could be the problem, but do not know how to change it. It is greyd out.

Since you're posting in the icloud forum, I'm going to assume you're using an icloud email account.
You're not supposed to edit its settings directly. Quit Mail. Click your apple >> system preferences >> icloud. Remove the checkmark beside mail. Wait a minute and recheck it. Then try the account in the mail.app again.
If you've manually added the account because you're not running Lion or Mountain Lion, then you can check the settings in Mail menu >> preferences >> accounts >> select the account. The correct settings for icloud mail is here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4864

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This happens only in messages I get from my service provider about msgs their Spam filter catches.
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Same problem here - and we are probably using the same spam software.
I had no problems with the emails I had been receiving with the MIME attachment images for 4+ months. Although another co-worker was having the same issues that you are describing as soon as we started using this new spam filter software.
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E-Mail Alias or Display Name on bursting?

Hello,
Has anybody tried using e-mail display name or alias in bursting (EBS version)?
<xapi:email server="xxmail.mailx.com" port="25" from="[email protected]" reply-to ="">
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yes - it works:
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<xapi:message id="${XX_ID}" to="${XX_EMAIL}" cc=""
...

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. Before updating my Intel iMac to Leopard, none of my incoming mail displayed the text or graphic that it was used to compose the mail i.e everything is in plain text . I took the computer to local Apple store and paid for 2 hours of the tech's time and he could not find the source of the problem. After upgrading to Leopard, it did improve a bit with some mail displaying the graphics and rich text but now it is happening again.
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What host name do I use for Hotmail incoming mail server?

What host name do I use for Hotmail incoming mail server?

Access the homescreen and tap "Settings."
Go to "Mail, Contacts, and Calendars" and tap "Add Account." Your iPhone should display a list of email service providers. Even though you are setting up a Hotmail account, you will be doing it first through Gmail on your iPhone. Tap the Gmail icon to create a new account. Enter your name and a user name and password for the new Hotmail account you will be making later. Enter "imap.gmail.com" in the "HostName" column. Press the "Save" button at the upper right corner of the screen.
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Can we display only email address on the sender when receive external incoming mails

Hello ALL Experts,
Organization want to see only email addresses in the FROM field when receive External incoming emails from Any domains.
I know for Sending emails out to the External domain we can control it in exchange with the help of Use Simple Display Name attribute.
So want the same to the managed for external incoming emails as well, if possible with the help of Transport rule or some custom scripts
Thanks in advance

Hi,
Based on my knowledge, we can use simple display name as an external display name for outgoing messages, but I'm afraid there is no way to do this for incoming mails.
Best regards,
Belinda Ma
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Never had trouble before with my incoming mail but just now I get a messege saying the user name or password for verizon is incorrect on my iPad but is fine on my home computer what's wrong with my ipad

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I experienced same problem tonight and called Verizon technical support and they walked me through the settings on iPad. Took about 5 minutes. Basically it involved changing incoming.verizon.net to pop.verizon.net and changing outgoing.verizon.net to smtp.verizon.net. But it's worth the call to ensure other settings are OK. Evidently, change at Verizon was effective today!

When I send a mail from my iPhone, it displays the mail server name to the receiver if the mail and does nog display my name or e mail address. This only since upgrading my iPhone5 to iOS7

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Rectory wrote:
Please can someone tell me how I can change this so when I send a mail from my phone and from the IPad that it reads from me.
You need a separate email address but you've already ruled out that solution.

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