Wrong addressee, incoming iCloud e-mail

I receive incoming i-cloud e-mail in the correct in-box, but the addressee on the e-mail shows a name that is not mine; it shows "MLB.TV"

iPhone 14 Pro, iOS 18

Posted on Mar 17, 2025 02:45 PM

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Mar 21, 2025 05:29 PM in response to v2gearup

Do you have your iCloud and MLB accounts both added in Apple Mail? Are you sure that you are not accidentally sending emails from your MLB account (you can usually set a default "send" account but also manually choose - and the default can be set to "last account used", too).


I have iCloud and Outlook both in my Apple Mail and, yes, have been known to send email from the wrong one from time to time.

Mar 20, 2025 07:53 PM in response to g_wolfman

Not spam. The content of the incoming e-mail is legitimate. The issue is this: the incoming e-mail is usually a response to one of mine. The content is, as I said, OK (legitimate). However, the addressee on the incoming address line shows ...@MLB.TV (yes, Major League Baseball) rather than ...@icloud.com. I have a totally separate account (subscription) with MLB.TV that functions as intended, so it seems that somehow that address has migrated to my icloud account/address.

Mar 23, 2025 12:37 AM in response to g_wolfman

iCloud is in Apple mail; MLB.TV is NOT in Apple mail. The problem only occurs with respect to incoming messages addressed to my iCloud e-mail wherein the addressee reads MLB.TV. I just discovered a bizarre situation when I tried to print one of the incoming messages with the errant addressee; the header format changed, and the addressee read correctly, ...@icloud. I took a screen shot to document the wrong addressee. To be sure I wasn't using an improper procedure, I repeated the exercize three times with different incoming messages, all of which had the MLB.TV addressee (documented by screen shot), but when printed, showed ...@icloud, with no evidence of MLB.TV at all.

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