I noticed the same thing and attempted to find a cure. Here is my non-expert discovery.
Entourage (and perhaps other e-mail programs) ?remembers? the e-mail address of all e-mails senders that sent you and e-mail including e-mails you never opened, junk mail and spam. Entourage thinks you might want to use them. Try clicking on ?new message? and just enter the letter ?a? in the To box and wait a moment. You will see a list of e-mail addresses beginning with ?a?. Some of them are legitimate from your address book and some you may not recognize. Try enter ?b? and waiting a moment. Again, you may see strange e-mail addresses. If you do not see unfamiliar e-mail address keep trying the letters of the alphabet. Soon you will discover unwanted e-mail addresses. Also try combinations like ?bro? and the like. You will likely find unfamiliar e-mail addresses co-mingled with e-mail addresses from your address book. Another test is to locate an e-mail you deleted with out opening and enter the first few letters of that address into your new message To box. The complete e-mail address of the offending sender will appear in the selection menu. I have been mildly disconcerted by the intrusion but have seen no ill effects. Microsoft told me the program has a finite number of locations for these addresses so as new addresses are stored older inactive addresses drop out of the stack. Also, MS said there is no way to turn off the process. If you or someone from our Mac users group finds a way to stop Entourage from storing non-address book e-mail addresses automatically, please share the knowledge. On 11/7/03 12:55 PM, "Beth Ernst" <bernst at fastline.com> wrote: > When I type an address in the To box in Entourage my program is pulling > email addresses that are not in my address book. > > For example, I type a message to a co-worker named Philip, who is in my > address book, and my email is pulling an address for Philips Electronics > which is clearly the address from some junk mail I've received in the past. > The Philips Electronics address does not appear in my address book so I > don't know where Entourage is getting it, but I'd like to get rid of it. Any > ideas? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20031107/f84754d8/attachment.html
