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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
