"Forward To" email address

[DaveWT]

For some time now, I have been occasionally getting this dialog box when I go to send a new email:



I have no idea where to find my "Hide My Email settings" and don't know why this started appearing. I am talking about Apple Mail with iCloud.com. Mac.com or Me.com (all the same account of course) and am presently on the latest Tahoe (but I think this started before Tahoe).

I generally just click it away and carry on with no sign of adverse effects, but it makes me worry...

Dave

 

[DaveWT]

Still going on after updating to 26.1 Anyone?

 

[chas_m]

Use Hide My Email on Mac

On your Mac, upgrade your iCloud storage to include iCloud+ and use the enhanced mail privacy of Hide My Email.

support.apple.com

This article also discusses how to turn it off.

 

[DaveWT]

Thanks Chas,

This article led me to where the setting are for this feature, which was very helpful. In the past, I have set up a few of these special email addresses for companies from which I wanted a one time reply but didn't want to leave them with my real email address. But in viewing the list, I came across a number of my close friends, for whom I would never have used this feature. So I am not sure how or why their email addresses would have been given this treatment. I have deactivated those "phone" email addresses. However I see no reason why starting a fresh email to someone would trigger a dialog to update my forward to address (even before I have entered a "To" address). Hopefully by deactivating the ones that shouldn't be there, this problem will go away. At least now I know where to look.