On 4-Feb-06, at 1:09 AM, Kari Rasmason wrote:
How do you get rid of them?
In the address book select the name > click on edit > delete
Ummm ... if I may, I'd like to offer a slightly different answer.
When you select the "Previous Recipients" item under the Windows menu
in Mail, and the window opens listing all these addresses, there are
buttons at the bottom of the window titled, "Remove from list" and
"Add to Address Book". If you see an entry which you don't want, you
have to first click on it and then click on the "Remove from list"
button.
The data contained in the "Previous Recipients" window includes
columns for Name, Email Address, and Date Last Used. There is also a
fourth item, which is a little icon which may or may not appear at
the far left of each entry, and which I believe signifies that this
item is ALSO found in your Address Book application.
Some of the entries in this window have an email address but no name.
In most cases, those entries will probably not be in your Address
Book. If you wanted to create an Address Book entry, you could click
on these and then hit the "Add to Address Book" button. Presumably
you would then want to look up that new entry in your Address Book
and provide at least a Name to go along with the email address.
Now, the previous respondent's advice that you can get rid of entries
by deleting them from the "address book" I think is actually an
error. I suspect that they meant to say "In the "Previous Recipients"
window, select the name > click on edit > delete" but even that is
not quite correct because the Edit > Delete command is greyed out for
this window. My point actually is just that deleting an address card
from the Address Book application will not have any effect on the
"Previous Recipients" window and is certainly not going to work for
all the "Previous Recipients" entries which aren't in the Address
Book to begin with.
I do agree with the original poster's comment that editing this list
after using Mail for a few years and not realizing it was there is
going to take me quite a while.
Oh, and I am using version 2.0.5 of Mail, under OS X 10.4.4. Possibly
some of my observations are not valid for other versions of Mail.
Jim Foster
Canada
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