{"id":226641,"date":"2023-05-06T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=284217"},"modified":"2025-07-01T19:17:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T02:17:54","slug":"email-duplicate-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/email-duplicate-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"How to stop receiving a copy of all emails sent from our iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When we send an email using the Mail app, it is expected that all recipients receive it, but what if we receive it too? It&#8217;s not something that should happen, not if it&#8217;s not our invention. So, if we are experiencing this situation, we should review a <strong>small setting in the Mail app that can cause us to receive a copy of each<\/strong> and every email we send.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Microsoft Office\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-m\/p\/1972d1ce-4bfe-43bf-976c-befcc315db66\/3065189389\/microsoft-office-Microsoft%20Office%202021-icn.png\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Microsoft Office<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/microsoft-office.en.softonic.com\/mac\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/microsoft-office.en.softonic.com\/mac\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Automatic forwarding to CC or BCC, a setting to keep in mind<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In several trainings I have been asked why we receive a copy of the same emails<\/strong> that we send. Often the question is accompanied by the comment that the app settings have been reviewed and everything is in order, but what about the other devices?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed-Youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Privacy on iPhone | Data Auction | Apple\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NOXK4EVFmJY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mail has a system that allows us to automatically add us to CC or BCC of all outgoing emails. A mechanism with which to save a copy of our communications, for example, and that if we want to disable we need to do it on all our devices. Let&#8217;s see the steps on an iPhone or iPad:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Open the <em>Settings<\/em> app on your iPhone or iPad.<\/li><li>Go to <em>Mail<\/em>.<\/li><li>We deactivate <em>Always add me to BCC<\/em>.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Since <strong>the synchronization via iCloud would take care that the messages would arrive equally<\/strong> if we keep the setting active on other devices, let&#8217;s now see the steps on a Mac, which are very similar:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>We open the <em>Mail<\/em> app on our Mac.<\/li><li>In the <em>Mail<\/em> menu, click on <em>Preferences<\/em>.<\/li><li>Go to the <em>Compose<\/em> tab.<\/li><li>Uncheck the option <em>Automatically [CC or BCC] to me<\/em>.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Microsoft Office\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-m\/p\/1972d1ce-4bfe-43bf-976c-befcc315db66\/3065189389\/microsoft-office-Microsoft%20Office%202021-icn.png\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Microsoft Office<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/microsoft-office.en.softonic.com\/mac\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/microsoft-office.en.softonic.com\/mac\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>With this setting disabled on all our devices we should stop receiving emails that we send ourselves. A system that, like the one that allows us to say <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/block-senders-mail-delete-messages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">goodbye to spam and block a sender in Mail<\/a> or the one that allows us to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/send-files-gmail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">send large files (up to 10 GB) in Gmail<\/a>, can be useful in many cases, but we should know how to deactivate it when we are not going to use it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Some of the links added in the article are part of affiliate campaigns and may represent benefits for Softonic.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we send an email through the Mail app, it is expected that all recipients receive it, but what if we receive it too?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9262,"featured_media":226644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[3909],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-226641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-mail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320507,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226641\/revisions\/320507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226641"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=226641"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=226641"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=226641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}