Redirecting Apple Mail

On Sep 12, 2007, at 6:06 AM, Joe Hanson wrote:

> I would like to redirect a copy of all mail, addressed to me, from my
> Apple Mail Inbox to my account at Yahoo Mail. (while also retaining a
> copy in my Apple Mail Inbox)

When possible, I prefer to use server-side mail filters for this sort
of thing so they happen as soon as the message arrives and doesn't
depend on a particular mail client on a particular machine. Of course
it depends on what mail filtering capabilities your server has, if any.

> I've set up a rule in Apple Mail to redirect a copy of all mail but,
> apparently, that mail is forwarded rather than redirected. This
> means that all such mail when it appears in Yahoo Mail indicates me
> as the sender rather than the original sender

Are you sure you chose the correct action in your Apple Mail rules?
Forward Message and Redirect Message are two separate options.

> Is this an error in Apple Mail program or am I missing something? Is
> there a work around?

I don't think it's a problem with Apple Mail, I just tried it
(version 2.752.3), both manually Redirecting and by using a rule to
send a message to Yahoo Mail and the correct name and address was on
the From line. I had to turn on Full Headers to see my address (the
one I used to redirect) at all. My address appeared on the lines
Return-Path and Resent-From (Resent-From appears to have been added
by Apple Mail).

Could your SMTP server be re-writing your headers, forcing everything
you send to be From: your address? You could test that by going into
Preferences | Accounts and adding a second email address after a
comma, make it the same but add a 1 to your name.