Mail, copy vs forwarding

[davemchine]

I receive a daily email that my wife also wants to read. I setup a Mail rule to forward the email to her but nothing happened. I changed the rule to copy the email to her and voila it worked. The downside is the copied email behaves as some sort of linked copy meaning if she deletes or reads the email it does the same thing in my email account (indicates read or even deletes before I can read). So I have two questions, nay maybe three:

1) why would copy work and forward not work in a rule?
2) is anyone successfully forwarding in Mail?
3) why does a copy behave the way I described?

[modelamac]

I have no problem forwarding an email I have received. That's one of the few things that have gone smoothly over the years.

Is there any way you can avoid the problem altogether by having your wife's email address added as a CC by the originator?

Have you tried shutting off the Mac and then rebooting it? Have you tried shutting down mail and rebooting mail. Have you tried forwarding after booting the Mac in safe mode? Believe it or not I've also had success by running Disk Utility first aid on all the internal drive or pieces of drives. That's the best help I can offer.

[Fritz]

check your Rule again. It should work.

[Tiangou]

Sounds a lot like your wife is using an email alias that links back to your account rather than having her own email account.

[davester]

Tiangou wrote:
Sounds a lot like your wife is using an email alias that links back to your account rather than having her own email account.

That was my thought too, especially after you said that actions that she took affected the copy on your account.