Remove automatic to emails?

K

Keith Ward

Hi,

When composing a new email and I start to write the email address it brings
a drop down list of matching addresses.

How do I remove addresses from this list?

Regards

Keith
 
C

Craig Deutsch

To my knowledge and unlike Outlook, Entourage doesn't allow you to remove
selected items from the drop-down list.

The "recently used addresses" keeps the most recent 200 or so addresses
typed into the fields. Supposedly it keeps the more frequently used ones
and allows less frequently used ones to drop off the list as the 200 entry
capacity is exceeded.

The only way to clear them is to clear them all, and its 'smartlist'
gathering will begin again.

To do this, go to Preferences > Mail & News Preferences > Compose. There,
at the bottom, you'll see a Recent Addresses section. Below the checkbox
that allows you to display a list of recently used addresses is a "Clear
List" button. Click it to clear the current list; you'll begin gathering
addresses again from scratch.

As a feature request, I'd like to see the ability to right- (or command-)
click on a particular drop-down and delete them individually.

Craig
 
M

Mickey Stevens

An option for deleting an individual address from the list is to select it
from the menu, Control-click it, select "Add to Address Book", go to Edit >
Categories > Junk, and then deleting the resulting entry that appears.
 
A

Allen Watson

There is a way to remove selected items but it is tedious. First, you
must know at least the first part of an address you want to remove
(normally you probably will make a note when it pops up as you are
addressing a message).

1. Start a new mail message.
2. Begin to type the address you want to delete; tab so it fills in the
To field.
3. Control-click on the blue ball next to the undesired address; select
"Add to Address Book" from the popup menu.
4. When the new contact window appears, click the Trash icon in its
toolbar to delete it.
5. Click the trash icon to delete the new message you used to get the address.

Or, if you jot down a number of these mail addresses to delete, you can
simply manually add them as contacts, and then delete them. The idea is
that deleting a contact will remove it from the "most recently used"
list, but in the case of these spurious addresses, you have to create
the contact first in order to delete it!
 
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