iMac Ventura: Mail sends messages to unintended recipients
On my iMac (macOS Ventura), I tried to “share” a recorded iPhone conversation from Notes by emailing it from one of my Apple addresses to another. This is what happened:
At 18:03h EST I send my test email, without the recording that should have automatically been attached, from one Apple address (@me.com) to another (@icloud.com).
At 18:04h, the iCloud Mail Delivery System returned the message to Sender: “This is a system-generated message to inform you that your email could not be delivered to one or more recipients. Details of the email, etc.” — from mailer-daemon@icloud.com.
At 18:04h, my message was bounced as Undeliverable by postmaster@adobe.com. Why is Adobe bouncing an email sent from one apple email address to another? (See screenshot below.) “Info for Email Admins,” an exploded message header and a table of Message Hops follows. cclresearch@adobe.com mention a “message loop.” I’m beginning to suspect that Mail, for reasons way above my pay grade, spontaneously grabbed email addresses from my Contacts and sent copies of the test email to them.
At 18:12h, I get another “Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender” message from mailer-daemon@icloud.com: “<xxxxxxxxx@me.com>: Message delivery failed,” followed by the exploded code of the message I did not (intend to) send to a physical therapy outfit I haven’t used for five years.
At 18:15h, I get an email from Wired Magazine Customer Service thanking me for contacting their fulfillment department. Needless to say, I did NOT send them any such email.
Is macOS Mail melting down, or does sending a Mail message from a (@me.com) address to an (@icloud.com) address cause the IMAP/SMTP servers to melt down? Did I accidentally drop a bomb into something? What on earth happened?
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