How'd that email address get in there?

M

Murray

I create a new email message and begin entering some characters into the
Recipient field, and as I do this a recipient's name pops in. But this name
is NOT one I ever entered and further, it's not one that I WANT to be in
there (it looks very spammy - like [email protected]). So - I want
to delete it. But I can't find it in my address book! What's up with that?
 
M

Michel Bintener

Hi Murray.
Check this out, this should solve your problem:

------ Forwarded Message
From: Barry Wainwright <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 10:08:21 +0000
Subject: Re: How to delete unwanted autofill addresses

I have several addresses that pop-up to autofill when I'm entering an email
address. They are not addresses that I added. How do I delete them? Also, is
there a way to prevent them from accumulating?

Thanks.
-Don
Click to expand...
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.



--
Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
Seen the All-New Entourage Help Pages? - Check them out:
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>


------ End of Forwarded Message
 
M

Murray

Thanks Michel! That's gonna work fine. How would that address ever get
there in the first place if I had not actually sent them something?
 
M

Michel Bintener

I can't tell you for sure since I deactivated that feature as soon as I'd
installed Entourage, but maybe this list also contains addresses from
e-mails you've recently received. Though, in that case, it would seem very
strange to me why Entourage would keep junk mail addresses...

Michel
 
D

Daiya Mitchell

I can't tell you for sure since I deactivated that feature as soon as I'd
installed Entourage, but maybe this list also contains addresses from
e-mails you've recently received. Though, in that case, it would seem very
strange to me why Entourage would keep junk mail addresses...
Click to expand...

I love this function! But yes, it does keep addresses from the emails you
receive, not just those you send. Supposedly, if you mark a message as
Junk, that keeps Entourage from adding it to the MRU. And as it only stores
200 or so addresses, eventually all the junk ones should fall out as it
prioritizes the ones that are sent/received repeatedly, or so I've heard.
Definitely I've only been using Ent 2004 for 5 months and stopped noticing
junk addresses in the MRU a long time ago.


DM
 
A

Allen Watson

I love this function! But yes, it does keep addresses from the emails you
receive, not just those you send. Supposedly, if you mark a message as
Junk, that keeps Entourage from adding it to the MRU. And as it only stores
200 or so addresses, eventually all the junk ones should fall out as it
prioritizes the ones that are sent/received repeatedly, or so I've heard.
Definitely I've only been using Ent 2004 for 5 months and stopped noticing
junk addresses in the MRU a long time ago.
Click to expand...

This is why it's a good thing to make sure that, when you receive spam
that is NOT marked as spam by the Junk Mail Filter, you click on the
Junk button to mark it as junk. If you don't, the address stays in the
most recently used list.
 
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