Mail, I think you’re confused
The message actually only specified the feedback address—the real To header did not say “admin@viagra.com” at all. This was Mail’s mistake: somehow, it came to associate the spammer address with the feedback address in its Previous Recipients list.
So, all I had to do was delete the row for admin@viagra.com/feedback@… from that list, and order was restored.
January 11th, 2008 at 13:08:09
I’m not sure that’s Mail’s fault. Sometimes bringing any sort of (native Cocoa) tooltip up brings up the *last* shown tooltip, or a totally different tooltip sharing the same tracking area in another app.
If it was reproducible, it was Mail’s fault, though.
January 12th, 2008 at 02:06:04
Jesper: No. It was also listed with admin@viagra.com as its name in the Previous Recipients list.
January 14th, 2008 at 15:24:01
I’m having the same problem! I just noticed it today. I use gmail and when I go to gmail through Safari it shows my email, not “admin@Viagra.com”.
So it must be a Mail error…
January 18th, 2008 at 01:23:32
The problem seemed to go away once I added my email to Address Book. I went back and checked the emails that read “admin@…” and the all said my name where “admin@…” used to be!
Hopefully this solves everyones problem!
January 18th, 2008 at 08:44:23
David: The other solution is the one I mentioned in the post: Delete the errant address from Previous Recipients.