Guild Wars 2

On Compose Mail window:

Right clicking an item from inventory and selecting ‘mail item to…’ is automatically changing the mail recipients name to whoever is standing in your line of sight and highlighted.

Example: If I choose to send mail via my Contacts window by right clicking a friends name, it will populate their handle in the Compose Mail’s ‘To’ field. However while I am selecting items to be sent by using the right click “mail item to…” method, my friends name will automatically change to a random player that happens to be in my characters line of sight and highlighted. This also occurs when typing in my friends name rather than using the contacts window.

I’ve re-created this about a dozen times and it appears to only happen when you use the right click method mentioned above. If you drag and drop items into the mail from your inventory, the recipients name will remain unchanged.

Seems to happen quite often at crafting stations and the bank due to the amount of players around. I’ve only had 1 mail go to the wrong person and thankfully they were kind enough to return the items.

So far my work around is standing with my face to the wall when I send mail

Cheers.

Are you sure its a random player name – or is it the official account name of your friend that is being automatically assigned to the mail? (which its supposed to do)

Checked. This happens with both official account names (the one with numbers after them) and character names. If you have anyone highlighted on your screen that isn’t an NPC, it will populate that persons name in place of whoever you had typed into the recipient field. So, I suppose its not a random name, just whoever you may be facing or have moused over before/during your mail creation.

Right. happens to me every time I try to send stuff with the “mail to” -thing.
When I click it, the name in the mail changes to someone right next to me.

This is a problem to some people.
A few days ago, I got a mail with stuff from a random person. He texted me right after, that it was an accident and he never clicked on me or typed my name in…. all he did, was standing right beside me. I send it back and we talked a little about that mail-problem.

It could be the name of the person you mouse over while clicking in your inventory, maybe the person that stands right behind the clicked item, because it will not happen, when you step aside, so that you are alone and looking upon a wall or some house without players in sight.

Just tested this and it’s a really annoying feature, it is indeed the person closest in your chars field of view that gets filled in automatically. I can only assume it’s working as intended though.. still, it’s really annoying.

It’s not so much annoying as just plain confusing as to how, why would the mail system try to decide who I want to mail items to? My only thought is that without a person-to-person trade, they decided to add this feature for those players who like person-to-person trades. I’m just guessing though…