On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Frank Bonavitacola <
[email protected]> wrote:

> One of Gmail's greatest strengths lies in the ability to use email address
> variations. Adding a '.' anywhere in the email address will still send to
> the same email account. Likewise, adding a '+' and then any string of
> characters does the same, Gmail simple ignores the '+' and anything after
> it.
>
> But these variations allow me to create loads of filtering options to keep
> my email tidy. This is wonderful.
>
> Not to my complaint. When email is sent to one of these email address
> variations, that variation of my email address is added as a contact in my
> list. Worse yet, when I attempt to write an email to myself (as a reminder,
> for example) I am given a long list of variations of my email. I find
> myself purging my contact list of these variations on occasion, but this is
> a short term solution.
>
> Is there anything I can do to keep this from happening?
>
>   Thanks for reading!
>

To stop it from automatically adding contacts go into Settings and on the
General tab there is a *Create contacts for auto-complete:* setting which
you can change to "I'll add contacts myself".


Jeff

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