Mail downloading to wrong account

having this strange issue all of a sudden, where the mail for all of may accounts are being donloaded to just one account and not the correct one it was address to. my junk mail is also being downloaded here. just upgraded to lion. how can I fix?

hello? any help on this. everything seems to be working fine on my iphone, but in mail through lion just started acting wierd. should i delete my .plist file for mail. hello? anybody from mac there?

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Mail going to wrong account

Two of my mail servers that I manage are delivering mail to the wrong account
for example some emails sent to say [email protected] are ending up in [email protected]
If you look at the header sam is not a recipient nor is she a forward in aliases
any help would be greatfully recieved

These are possible causes for an e-mail to end up in the wrong place:
-additional shortnames in WGM
-forward set in WGM
-a .forward file in the user's mail directory
-an alias in /etc/postfix/aliases
-an alias in /etc/postfix/virtual
-a sieve script
-a bcc
-a catchall account
-an autoforward by the original recipient
Hope I didn't miss any.
You should check all these possibilities. If you still need help, post relevant log entries and the unmodified output of postconf -n

Mail going to wrong account 2

I amm also having mail going to th wrong accounts, luckily it is only happening to few out of 170+ accounts.
Pterobyte- I seen your suggestions on the other similiar post and cannot seem to find anything wrong in those areas.
I am enclosing current postconf & smtplog for your info.
Let me know if there is anything else you need.
Last login: Mon Oct 30 15:00:59 on console
Welcome to Darwin!
Skilster:~ admin$ postconf -n
command_directory = /usr/sbin
config_directory = /etc/postfix
content_filter = smtp-amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024
daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
debugpeerlevel = 2
enableserveroptions = yes
html_directory = no
inet_interfaces = all
mail_owner = postfix
mailboxsizelimit = 0
mailbox_transport = cyrus
mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq
manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
messagesizelimit = 0
mydestination = $myhostname,localhost.$mydomain,localhost,mail.skilonline.com,skilonline.com
mydomain = skilonline.com
mydomain_fallback = localhost
myhostname = mail
mynetworks = 192.168.10.250/32,65.66.91.249,127.0.0.1/32,192.168.4.0/24,192.168.1.0/24,192.1 68.2.0/24,192.168.3.0/24
mynetworks_style = host
newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases
queue_directory = /private/var/spool/postfix
readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix
sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix/examples
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail
setgid_group = postdrop
smtpdclientrestrictions = hash:/etc/postfix/smtpdreject
smtpdpw_server_securityoptions = login
smtpdrecipientrestrictions = permitsasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauthdestination,permit
smtpdsasl_authenable = yes
smtpdtls_keyfile =
smtpduse_pwserver = yes
unknownlocal_recipient_rejectcode = 550
Skilster:~ admin$
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/cleanup[787]: 80990E5F489: message-id=<20061022212104.93FE620CD54@mail>
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: warning: mail for [127.0.0.1]:10024 is using up 4001 of 4179 active queue entries
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: warning: you may need to reduce smtp-amavis connect and helo timeouts
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: warning: so that Postfix quickly skips unavailable hosts
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: warning: you may need to increase the main.cf minimalbackofftime and maximalbackofftime
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: warning: so that Postfix wastes less time on undeliverable mail
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: warning: you may need to increase the master.cf smtp-amavis process limit
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: warning: please avoid flushing the whole queue when you have
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: warning: lots of deferred mail, that is bad for performance
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: warning: to turn off these warnings specify: qmgrclog_warntime = 0
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: BC96AE5F48A: uid=27 from=<[email protected]> orig_id=03CF9A19CEA
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/cleanup[777]: BC96AE5F48A: message-id=<[email protected]>
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28868E5BFB4: from=<[email protected]>, size=2651, nrcpt=3 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28877E51AD7: from=, size=3928, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28877E56F87: from=<[email protected]>, size=1672, nrcpt=13 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: E3D88E5F48E: uid=27 from= orig_id=03CFEA2EE0E
Oct 30 15:08:47 Skilster postfix/cleanup[782]: E3D88E5F48E: message-id=<20061027025516.2F93A90A4A9@mail>
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 2887EE50216: from=, size=3754, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 288B2E5E899: from=, size=4429, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: 1F16CE5F492: uid=27 from= orig_id=03D019FE1A7
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 288BDE4A388: from=<[email protected]>, size=2147, nrcpt=6 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 288D4E4D52A: from=<[email protected]>, size=1585, nrcpt=5 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/cleanup[787]: 1F16CE5F492: message-id=<20061027095250.C308295642D@mail>
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 288D7E58445: from=, size=4019, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28909E4EE47: from=, size=4369, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: 52EE5E5F493: uid=27 from=<[email protected]> orig_id=03D0BA2A565
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/cleanup[777]: 52EE5E5F493: message-id=<[email protected]>
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28928E5E8E8: from=<[email protected]>, size=2285, nrcpt=9 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: 774A7E5F494: uid=27 from=<[email protected]> orig_id=03D0BA4DB9D
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/cleanup[782]: 774A7E5F494: message-id=<[email protected]>
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28930E5CDD9: from=<[email protected]>, size=1953, nrcpt=2 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: 8F19CE5F496: uid=27 from=<[email protected]> orig_id=03D0EA0B1AE
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/cleanup[787]: 8F19CE5F496: message-id=<[email protected]>
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 2896CE4F622: from=<[email protected]>, size=2669, nrcpt=6 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: 9B98EE5F497: uid=27 from=<[email protected]> orig_id=03D10A15914
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/cleanup[782]: 9B98EE5F497: message-id=<[email protected]>
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 2897BE4D773: from=, size=4071, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 289AAE4E89C: from=, size=4309, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: B375BE5F498: uid=27 from=<[email protected]> orig_id=03D16A488A8
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/cleanup[787]: B375BE5F498: message-id=<[email protected]>
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 289B4E51D1F: from=, size=4524, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 289C3E5E56E: from=<[email protected]>, size=1512, nrcpt=3 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28A26E4C8E0: from=<[email protected]>, size=2012, nrcpt=10 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: C9531E5F499: uid=27 from=<[email protected]> orig_id=03D1EA4D844
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/cleanup[777]: C9531E5F499: message-id=<[email protected]>
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28A58E4CCC0: from=<[email protected]>, size=2193, nrcpt=4 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28A74E510AE: from=, size=3944, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: E1433E5F49A: uid=27 from=<[email protected]> orig_id=03D219EE5EA
Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/cleanup[782]: E1433E5F49A: message-id=<[email protected]>
Oct 30 15:08:49 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28A83E50BA2: from=, size=5396, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
o.com.tw>, relay=none, delay=5097, status=deferred (delivery temporarily suspended: host mx2.mail.tw.yahoo.com[203.188.197.10] refused to talk to me: 453 Mail from 65.66.91.249 not allowed - [90])
Oct 30 15:09:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 2FE66E5EE43: from=<[email protected]>, size=2077, nrcpt=2 (queue active)
Oct 30 15:09:48 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: 265E0E5F8D7: uid=27 from=<[email protected]> orig_id=04806A06335
Oct 30 15:09:48 Skilster postfix/cleanup[835]: 265E0E5F8D7: message-id=<[email protected]>
Oct 30 15:09:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 2FE9BE4EDC0: from=, size=4463, nrcpt=1 (queue active)

Jeff:
I have gotten hostname as you suggested, and thus far seen one Helo failure prior to that, so thanks for the tip.
The queue is running like 150k to 170k, I've got content filter off right in order to isolate problems.
This wrong account issue is causing some severe creditability issues with this server as you can imagine.
Thanks for the help.

Downloads in wrong account

Hey guys, so i mistakenly bought a tv series on the wrong icloud account on my iphone which downloaded to my mac. Then i signed into the correct account in itunes on my mac and the tv series began downloading again. However, when i try to view it on my apple tv, it will not play and when i try to download it on my ipad, it asks me to sign into the incorrect account. How can this be rectified?
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Mail defaulting to wrong account when replying

I have my wife and my accounts both in Mail. Sometimes, when I do a reply, it defaults as coming from my wife's account instead of mine (even though the message was to me), which is super annoying.
The details are this:
- message comes addressed to both my wife and I (and several other people);
- message is manually moved from my account folder to a folder I made for that topic;
- maybe a few weeks later, I select that message and click "reply all";
- I type up my reply and hit "send", expecting the Mail program to default to either:
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   b) the first account in the accounts list under Preferences;
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The problem is people reply (not "reply all") to my message and it goes to my wife's account, not mine, and I don't see it.
How do I get Mail to default to use my account as the sender?
Thanks!

These are possible causes for an e-mail to end up in the wrong place:
-additional shortnames in WGM
-forward set in WGM
-a .forward file in the user's mail directory
-an alias in /etc/postfix/aliases
-an alias in /etc/postfix/virtual
-a sieve script
-a bcc
-a catchall account
-an autoforward by the original recipient
Hope I didn't miss any.
You should check all these possibilities. If you still need help, post relevant log entries and the unmodified output of postconf -n

Mail downloaded from POP account in Gmail appears in Sent mail

I have configured Gmail to download mail from two other POP accounts. I use Mail.app in OS X with IMAP to access my Gmail. I've noticed that when I receive a message from one of my POP accounts, it appears in my inbox but also as an unread message in my Sent mail folder. Why? Is there anything I can do to change this behavior?

Sorry, I should have been more clear. The Gmail account is set-up as IMAP. But it does download POP email from other accounts. It's a nice feature and one of the main reasons I just use Gmail now for all email.
I know I could just ignore the issue, but it bothers me to have unread messages in the Sent mailbox. Clutters up the interface.

I have 4 email accounts in apple Mail. My mail is sending from the wrong account. even on "reply" it sends from a different account. I have 3 gmail accounts and one exchange server account. I choose which account to send from and it still sends from a

I have 4 email accounts in apple Mail. My mail is sending from the wrong account. even on "reply" it sends from a different account. I have 3 gmail accounts and one exchange server account. I choose which account to send from and it still sends from the same gmail account. Help.

I HAD two accounts because of this problem. I completely removed the problem account from the Apple Mail client. Guess what is happening?? That's right - Mail is still sending from the other account that no longer exists on my computer, and I have absolutely no idea how this is happening. This is incredibly frustrating. When a recipient chooses to reply to my message, quite often I won't get it now because it is going to the other account that has now been deleted from my system. COME ON APPLE!!! WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH THIS???

Multiple copies of e-mails in the wrong family account.

I have a family account for MobileMe set up with only two accounts, one for my wife and one for me.
MobileMe syncs 3 computers (iBook, new MacBook and a 24" iMac all running OS X 10.5.6) and an iPhone 2.5G and an iPod touch.
When an e-mail is sent to my wife, it appears 3 times in my InBox and not at all in her InBox. Messgaes sent to me only appear once, correctly, in my InBox.
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John

A further thought is that multiple e-mails in the wrong InBox only occurs when the sender has a mac.com or me.com account. I have noticed that "outside" e-mails addressed to my wife go into her InBox correctly.
But this may not be true of all e-mails.
Also, after making some changes to my Mail prefs, I am now only getting 2 e-mails in the wrong box!
Note: I was reducing the choices for incoming mail servers. No smpt.mac.com. Only smpt.me.com.
John

When I send an email with Mail, I often confuse the account which I'm using. The result is that I send a message with the wrong account! Is there a way to avoid this (for example a reminder before the email is sent)?

When I send an email with Mail, I often confuse the account which I'm using. The result is that I send a message with the wrong account! Is there a way to avoid this (for example a reminder before the email is sent)?

Hi, thanks for the answer, I did that already. Unfortunatly this doesn't help me at all, as I often forget to check the menu. For me composing the message is writing the text, the subject, the person to who is addressed and than press "send".
I often forget to check the "from", and this is a problem because the software select itself one of the accounts.
Isn't there a way at least to put as a default a blank field instead of one of the accounts? or an account which doesn't work so if I forget to specify the "from" I will be rnotofied that the message can't be sent.
I guess this could be a rather common problem for many people!
Thanks
Sergio

Mail with multiple gmail accounts sending messages from wrong email, other than the one i select

mail with multiple gmail accounts sending messages from wrong email, other than the one i select:
i'm using mail on osx 10.7 with multiple gmail accounts. when i create an email, i check to be sure i'm sending/replying from the correct account. after i send it, somehow it actually sends it from a different account, other than the one i've selected "from." this is evidenced by the reply email i receive. how can i fix this?
in preferences, i have "send new messages from : account of selected mailbox"

From the Mail menu bar, select
          Mail ▹ Preferences...
The Mail preference dialog opens. Select the Composing tab from the row of icons at the top. From the menu labeled
          Send new messages from:
choose
          Account of selected mailbox
Note that this setting may have no effect if you start a new message while a VIP or smart mailbox is selected in the mailbox list. Those are saved searches, not actual mailboxes.
If the problem remains, select the Accounts tab in the preference dialog, then select the affected account in the list on the left.
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from the menu bar.

Into my download stack which appears to be a Facebook login page to someone who is not me but has my e/mail as the primary account,should I be concerned?

I have clicked on a link received in my e/mai which has put a download into my download stack which appears to be a Facebook login page to someone who is not me but has my e/mail as the primary account,should I be concerned?

I would do the following just to be safe.
Change your email password so anyone trying to use your email address won't be able to or delete that email address from where ever you got it after getting a new one.
I would trash the download.

Why is mail being sent from wrong account

I am trying to send mail from a specific account, however even though it is showing as the correct account when it is received it is from my partners account. I have followed the @mail@ set up and checked everything - which appears to be ok - but it is still wrong somewhere. HELP please.

I am having this same issue. I have several accounts (all .live) which I use for my various different jobs. Frequently now I am sending a mail, or replying to a mail, and it is being received from the wrong account.
- I check the account at the top of the mail that I am sending is correct.
- the mail listed in my 'Sent' folder shows as being sent from the correct account.
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- the email accounts seem to be random - not always the same incorrect one is used.

Mutliple accounts: download new mails only for certain accounts

i have setup mail to have a few accounts. i can disable accounts in the preferences, but then they are not any longer shown in mail.
when i now open mail, all new mails from all accounts are retrieved. how can i have mail only download new mail for one (certain) account. maybe to trigger the download by hand? or have mail configured to download mails automatically for one account and manually for the others.
it is very anoying, when opening mail, that all accounts are processed. this takes time especially on a weak and slow internet connection, it also costs download traffic. i want to manually trigger the "get new mails" for accounts.
markus

thats not the point: i don't want the automatic push in the backround. setting "manual" only means: that the mails are retrieved when mail.app is openend. this is not what i want. i want to open mail.app and then choose which mails/accounts being retrieved!

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I installed Yosemite and I wish I had waited , I can now receive mail on my google account but can't send
I just get the drop down box with Google off line try another server
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Well, it happened again.
This morning I was sending out a bunch of emails and around the 10th one they started kicking back.
This time I did not fool with any of the settings on my computer.
I turned off both the modem and router. Started them back up and the problem still exists.
The last time this happend, about a week ago, it started working again within an hour.
This problem ony crops up when I am sending many emails at the same time
Throughout the rest of the week it works fine.
This time I by-passed the router and the mail will go out.
So it looks like someting is going on with the router.
Whenver I hook the router back up, outgoing mail will not work.
It says it cannot send mail using my server.
I double checked all of my mail setings and nothing has changed
I also did a hard rest on the router, but it did not help.
Again this problem is with 2 computers.
I have an early version of Airport Extreme Model A1143.
It's around 5 years old.
Whenever I call my ISP they claim everything checks out on their end and they don't offer any help.
I am sure if I leave the router unplugged for a day or so, it will start working again.
Is there any way a router can break down and allow incoming mail and internet but not outgoing mail?
I am am at wits end with this problem.
I would be willing to go out and get the latest Airport Extreme if I knew for sure it would cure this problem.

Mailing List Replies Come from Wrong Account

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I have two mail accounts, let's call them "X" (my main account) and "Y" (an account I use for mailing lists only). I have a Rule that filters all mail to the Y account to one of several mail folders on my mac. This keeps all my mailing list email organized.
Under OS X 10.3, this worked fine. I could read one of these emails, click Reply, and Mail would properly set the sending account to Y.
Under 10.4, Mail insists on setting the account to X. This causes my list mail reply to bounce, and is annoying the heck out of me!
I've tried various combinations of "Send new messages from: ..." but none seem to work. I can't set it to "Y" because I want all new messages to be sent from my main account "X".
Help!

This should not occur.
As an experiment, I have some old saved received messages in a user created mailbox that were addressed to an old email account/address that was cancelled. When selecting Reply for any of these messages, my default Send New Mail from account is chosen as the sending email account/address.
When doing the same for any messages located in a user created mailbox that were addressed to an existing valid email account/address that is not my default Sent New Mail from account selection, the account/email address the message was addressed to is the account chosen as the sending email account/address.
I believe there is some minor corruption to your Mail.app preference file. Let me know if you need the instructions for targeting the preference file which will require re-entering all email account information.

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