Moving gmail messages in Mail to On My Mac folder naming problem

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Moving gmail messages in Mail to On My Mac folder naming problem

I am using Mail on the current version of Monterey to get my Gmail messages. I when I move them into the folder in the ON MY Mac section, all the messages show my name as the sender on the list. When I click on each message, they open with the correct information and the correct sender. I can search for a message and it shows up in the search results but the search result shows my name as the sender. I have to click on each result to see who the original sender was.

I am not forwarding these messages, I am either copying or moving them.

I just want to have a offline archive of my selected messages. Has anyone found a simple way to achieve this? I think what I described above is a bug in Mail at least in Monterey.

Mac mini, macOS 13.2

Posted on Mar 7, 2023 11:53 PM

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Mar 8, 2023 3:45 AM in response to willow186

I have been using a gmail account and moving messages to On My Mac mailboxes for over two decades.

I have never seen this problem, neither in Monterey, nor before, nor after.

So it seems more likely to be something peculiar in your setup. Alas, I have no idea why this happens, but you may want to try rebuilding the affected mailboxes.

If you create a new mailbox under On My Mac, and move a message there, does it also show the problem?

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