old email addresses

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Janet_Le_Bel

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

How do I delete old email addresses that automatically pop up when I start to type the first few letters of a name? These addresses are not in the address book
 
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Michel Bintener

A feature in Entourage, called MRU (Most Recently Used) AutoComplete List,
gathers addresses from your recently used contacts. These can be contacts
from both incoming and outgoing e-mail messages, and Entourage stores them
in a list for quick access. Entourage never learns addresses from e-mail
messages marked as junk, and the list is limited to 200 entries, so wrong
and obsolete entries are bound to disappear after some time.

To turn off this feature, go to Entourage>Preferences and select the Compose
entry in the Mail & News section. At the bottom of that window, you will see
an option labelled "Display a list of recently used addresses when
addressing messages"; uncheck it. You can also hit the Clear List button
just below to force Entourage to empty the list.

You can find out more about it by reading the information on this website:
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/glossary/mru.html>


Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

How do I delete old email addresses that automatically pop up when I start to
type the first few letters of a name? These addresses are not in the address
book
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--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:mac (Entourage & Word)

*** Please always reply to the newsgroup. ***
 
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Guest

A feature in Entourage, called MRU (Most Recently Used) AutoComplete List,
gathers addresses from your recently used contacts. These can be contacts
from both incoming and outgoing e-mail messages, and Entourage stores them
in a list for quick access. Entourage never learns addresses from e-mail
messages marked as junk, and the list is limited to 200 entries, so wrong
and obsolete entries are bound to disappear after some time.

To turn off this feature, go to Entourage>Preferences and select the Compose
entry in the Mail & News section. At the bottom of that window, you will see
an option labelled "Display a list of recently used addresses when
addressing messages"; uncheck it. You can also hit the Clear List button
just below to force Entourage to empty the list.

You can find out more about it by reading the information on this website:
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/glossary/mru.html>




--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:mac (Entourage & Word)

*** Please always reply to the newsgroup. ***
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Since there is no way to clear a single entry from the MRU, the CLEAR
LIST Button is the next best thing assuming you have important /
commonly used address in you address book (so you don't lose them from
the MRU).

Thanks for the support / pointers to detailed info.
 
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Diane Ross

[email protected] said:
Since there is no way to clear a single entry from the MRU, the CLEAR
LIST Button is the next best thing assuming you have important /
commonly used address in you address book (so you don't lose them from
the MRU).
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You can clear a single address. See the link.
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/glossary/mru.html>

To clear a single address, add it exactly like the one that is remembered to
your address book and mark it as Junk (or assign category Junk). You can
just delete the address, but if you receive it again it will just be added
back. Marking as junk will permanently remove it from the AutoComplete list.
 
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