When we send an email using the Mail app, it is expected that all recipients receive it, but what if we receive it too? It’s not something that should happen, not if it’s not our invention. So, if we are experiencing this situation, we should review a small setting in the Mail app that can cause us to receive a copy of each and every email we send.
Automatic forwarding to CC or BCC, a setting to keep in mind
In several trainings I have been asked why we receive a copy of the same emails that we send. Often the question is accompanied by the comment that the app settings have been reviewed and everything is in order, but what about the other devices?
Mail has a system that allows us to automatically add us to CC or BCC of all outgoing emails. A mechanism with which to save a copy of our communications, for example, and that if we want to disable we need to do it on all our devices. Let’s see the steps on an iPhone or iPad:
- Open the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad.
- Go to Mail.
- We deactivate Always add me to BCC.
Since the synchronization via iCloud would take care that the messages would arrive equally if we keep the setting active on other devices, let’s now see the steps on a Mac, which are very similar:
- We open the Mail app on our Mac.
- In the Mail menu, click on Preferences.
- Go to the Compose tab.
- Uncheck the option Automatically [CC or BCC] to me.
With this setting disabled on all our devices we should stop receiving emails that we send ourselves. A system that, like the one that allows us to say goodbye to spam and block a sender in Mail or the one that allows us to send large files (up to 10 GB) in Gmail, can be useful in many cases, but we should know how to deactivate it when we are not going to use it.
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