Automatic adding of names/email addresses to Contacts

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Fraser Benzal

How do I stop this. I do not want an address book entry for any email sent
to me (or that I send out) to be added as a contact UNLESS I choose to. I do
not for example, want to add an address for some car information I asked for
or other non-critical contact info.

How can I stop this? I only want people in my address book/contact IF I HAVE
personally added them!! Grrr and help. Please!
 
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Barry Wainwright

How do I stop this. I do not want an address book entry for any email sent
to me (or that I send out) to be added as a contact UNLESS I choose to. I do
not for example, want to add an address for some car information I asked for
or other non-critical contact info.

How can I stop this? I only want people in my address book/contact IF I HAVE
personally added them!! Grrr and help. Please!
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They don't get added automatically to your address book. Either you have a
rule doing this or you are coinfusing things with the MRU (Most Recently
Used list):

In Entourage X and 2004 there is an option in the preferences to clear this
address Cache (Mail & News prefs; Compose tab). You can also (in the same
place) turn off the display of these addresses (but still keep the Œauto
complete¹ of names in your address book).

In both Entourage v9 and in vX individual items can be removed by adding an
entry to the address book that EXACTLY matches the rogue entry in the
history list and then deleting it.

In entourage 2004, hitting the 'junk' button in the toolbar will remove the
address of that message from the cache as well.


Alternatively, just wait a few days/weeks. The remembered addresses are
prioritised by age & frequency and the list is limited to a maximum of 200,
so eventually your mistakes will fall out at the bottom.
 
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