Re: Deleting address history - SOURCE OF ADDRESSES
Hello MAU, The drop-down list (menu, as you call it) that appears when you start typing is a list that is built on the fly with addresses from Address Book, or To history or both, that match the characters that you have typed so far. You can see that it is built on the fly if, once it appears, you type one or more characters. So, as the shown list as such does not exist in any file (like the To history does) you cannot delete from it. If you want to delete one or more addresses, you will have to do so from the AB or the To history. You can set which addresses appear in the address dropdowns for To:, CC:, BCC: Go to Preferences -- Viewer/Editor -- Message Headers Edit the header you want e.g. To: Go to the editing tab and you'll see a variety of sources in 'While-you-type Actions' for suggestions and auto-complete. TB! really does have it all. -- Best regards, Tonymailto:t...@parkinch.co.uk The Bat! 5.3.8 Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Deleting address history - SOURCE OF ADDRESSES
Hello Tony, You can set which addresses appear in the address dropdowns for To:, CC:, BCC: Go to Preferences -- Viewer/Editor -- Message Headers Edit the header you want e.g. To: Go to the editing tab and you'll see a variety of sources in 'While-you-type Actions' for suggestions and auto-complete. TB! really does have it all. As I have just written in TBBeta: ,- [ ] | Great find Tony! | | When we had the discussion a couple of weeks ago I seemed to remember I | had seen something like that before, but as I could not find it, I | thought I may have been dreaming. | | Yes, TB is great once you know all the features and options it has, and | if you remember where the heck they are set and/or configured :-) `- -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v5.3.8.5 (BETA) My photos at: http://www.Rancho-K.com My photoblog: http://mau.aminus3.com Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Deleting address history
Hello Dwight, While this has never happened to me with Miguel, I have done it with others, and it can be embarrassing. Exactly :) -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v5.3.8.4 (BETA) My photos at: http://www.Rancho-K.com My photoblog: http://mau.aminus3.com Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Deleting address history
Hi On Saturday 16 March 2013 at 12:24:51 PM, in mid:169886679.20130316082...@mynormallife.com, Sam Brown wrote: That does work if you're in the double-arrow dropdown list, but it does not work on the dropdown menu that appears when you start typing in the field, which I think is what everyone is referring to when they are asking this question. I generally find the settings at options - preferences - messages - address history keep the address history list fairly well in check. The pop-up favourites list of address book entries is unobtrusive, and therefore dead easy to ignore. -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at statistics! Using The Bat! v4.0.38 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Deleting address history
MAU: Hello Tony, How can I delete addresses offered on the address drop down when addressing a new email? According to TBUDL archove, I should simply select the address and hit the Delete key. This doesn't work for me. Once you get the drop-down, use the down arrow key to 'enter' the list and then use the up or down arrow keys to scroll through it. When you get to the address you want to delete, just hit Delete. This has always worked here. That didn't work for me. The only effective solution was editing the ACCOUNT.HIS file. See the thread starting from this message: From: Luca mbox543...@linuxfan.it Subject: Is there any way to clear the address history? Wrong addresses keep coming out... Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:45:35 +0100 Message-ID: lamfh8dq754chvk3sd348slmgg7fooq...@4ax.com -- Luca - e-mail: p.stevens at linuxfan.it Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Deleting address history
Hello Tony, Thanks for looking at this. One final piece of the puzzle is have you figured out which entry of the auto-complete list is selected and copied to the To: address? For me it is always the same one but not the first one in the list, not by name, not by address. No pattern I can see. Try backspacing over your typing and type the same again - I get a different item selected each time and sometimes no item. I hardly use the autocomplete feature, I usually select the addresses from the Favourites pop-up or from AB. One of the reasons being that it would not be the first time that using autocomplete the message was sent to the wrong person. I think this may answer your questions. -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v5.3.8.4 (BETA) My photos at: http://www.Rancho-K.com My photoblog: http://mau.aminus3.com Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Deleting address history
On Sunday, March 17, 2013, 12:02:35 PM, MAU wrote: One of the reasons being that it would not be the first time that using autocomplete the message was sent to the wrong person. this can particularly be a problem because of how reply addresses to lists are constructed. This message is addressed to MAU with the list address in carrots following. If I were trying to replace that address with one to MAU@private.address to send a private comment about something on the list, my inattention might result in my choosing the list address again, instead of the private one, and my catty comment going to the list as not intended. While this has never happened to me with Miguel, I have done it with others, and it can be embarrassing. -- Dwight A. Corrin h: 316.303.9385 c: 316.207.6581 dcorrin at fastmail.fm photo galleries at http://dcorrin.smugmug.com Using IMAP with The Bat! 5.3.8.4 (BETA) on Windows 7 version 6,1 (Service Pack 1) Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Deleting address history
Hello Tony, How can I delete addresses offered on the address drop down when addressing a new email? According to TBUDL archove, I should simply select the address and hit the Delete key. This doesn't work for me. Once you get the drop-down, use the down arrow key to 'enter' the list and then use the up or down arrow keys to scroll through it. When you get to the address you want to delete, just hit Delete. This has always worked here. -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v5.3.8.4 (BETA) My photos at: http://www.Rancho-K.com My photoblog: http://mau.aminus3.com Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Deleting address history
Saturday, March 16, 2013, 6:05:12 AM, MAU wrote: How can I delete addresses offered on the address drop down when addressing a new email? According to TBUDL archove, I should simply select the address and hit the Delete key. This doesn't work for me. M Once you get the drop-down, use the down arrow key to 'enter' the list M and then use the up or down arrow keys to scroll through it. When you M get to the address you want to delete, just hit Delete. This has always M worked here. That does work if you're in the double-arrow dropdown list, but it does not work on the dropdown menu that appears when you start typing in the field, which I think is what everyone is referring to when they are asking this question. -- Sam Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Deleting address history
Hello Sam, M Once you get the drop-down, use the down arrow key to 'enter' the list M and then use the up or down arrow keys to scroll through it. When you M get to the address you want to delete, just hit Delete. This has always M worked here. That does work if you're in the double-arrow dropdown list, but it does not work on the dropdown menu that appears when you start typing in the field, which I think is what everyone is referring to when they are asking this question. The drop-down list (menu, as you call it) that appears when you start typing is a list that is built on the fly with addresses from Address Book, or To history or both, that match the characters that you have typed so far. You can see that it is built on the fly if, once it appears, you type one or more characters. So, as the shown list as such does not exist in any file (like the To history does) you cannot delete from it. If you want to delete one or more addresses, you will have to do so from the AB or the To history. -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v5.3.8.4 (BETA) My photos at: http://www.Rancho-K.com My photoblog: http://mau.aminus3.com Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Deleting address history
Hello MAU, The drop-down list (menu, as you call it) that appears when you start typing is a list that is built on the fly with addresses from Address Book, or To history or both, that match the characters that you have typed so far. You can see that it is built on the fly if, once it appears, you type one or more characters. So, as the shown list as such does not exist in any file (like the To history does) you cannot delete from it. If you want to delete one or more addresses, you will have to do so from the AB or the To history. Thanks for looking at this. One final piece of the puzzle is have you figured out which entry of the auto-complete list is selected and copied to the To: address? For me it is always the same one but not the first one in the list, not by name, not by address. No pattern I can see. Try backspacing over your typing and type the same again - I get a different item selected each time and sometimes no item. -- Best regards, Tonymailto:t...@parkinch.co.uk The Bat! 5.3.8.4 (BETA) Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Deleting address history
Hello Tony, On Saturday, March 16, 2013 you wrote: TH Hello MAU, The drop-down list (menu, as you call it) that appears when you start typing is a list that is built on the fly with addresses from Address Book, or To history or both, that match the characters that you have typed so far. You can see that it is built on the fly if, once it appears, you type one or more characters. So, as the shown list as such does not exist in any file (like the To history does) you cannot delete from it. If you want to delete one or more addresses, you will have to do so from the AB or the To history. TH Thanks for looking at this. One final piece of the puzzle is have you TH figured out which entry of the auto-complete list is selected and TH copied to the To: address? TH For me it is always the same one but not the first one in the list, TH not by name, not by address. No pattern I can see. TH Try backspacing over your typing and type the same again - I get a TH different item selected each time and sometimes no item. Hmmm, interesting. TB! seems to be fetching addresses from the AB based on which characters have been types so far. I see that if I type the letters li, TB! brings up *any* AB address which contains the letter combination li anywhere in the address. If I continue typing letters as in lis then only those addresses which contain those three letters, in that order, anywhere in the address will continue to appear. Names with *only* the li combination have dropped from the list. As I said, interesting but of little help to you. Based on what I have seen now I doubt you will be able to delete any of the addresses appearing without deleting them from the AB as was stated in an earlier reply. -- Best Regards, Jack LaRosa :usflag: Central Alabama Using The Bat! ver: 5.2. Running Windows XP Pro ver 5 build 2600 Service Pack 3 Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Deleting address history
Hello Tbudl, How can I delete addresses offered on the address drop down when addressing a new email? According to TBUDL archove, I should simply select the address and hit the Delete key. This doesn't work for me. Another post said to delete it on the Addresses Tab. The offending address is not there to be deleted. There is also strange behaviour of the address list drop down: * The list appears to be in random order * TB picks and highlight a random entry each time * Sometime and entry is copied into the address without highlighting. How is it meant to work? -- Best regards, Tony mailto:t...@parkinch.co.uk The Bat! 5.3.8.4 (BETA) with IMAP on Windows XP 5.1.Service Pack 3 Build: 2600 Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Deleting address history
Hello Tony, Friday, March 15, 2013, 5:32:20 PM, you wrote: Hello Tbudl, How can I delete addresses offered on the address drop down when addressing a new email? According to TBUDL archove, I should simply select the address and hit the Delete key. This doesn't work for me. Another post said to delete it on the Addresses Tab. The offending address is not there to be deleted. There is also strange behaviour of the address list drop down: * The list appears to be in random order * TB picks and highlight a random entry each time * Sometime and entry is copied into the address without highlighting. How is it meant to work? Talking to myself ... After much messing around, it seems that you *can* delete history this way BUT the addresses that appear in the drop down are in fact from the address book - which can't be deleted. You need to hit the double down arrow to get the history. TB does not honour the Add Items to the Instant Address Popup setting in the Group Properties. Therefore, all address book addresses appear in the drop down. What's more, if the address is a member of multiple address book groups, then it will appear multiple times - each time rendered slightly differently. E.g. David 'David' 'David...' A single address appearing multiple times makes sense because each group can have its own templets, character set, etc. but there is no indication which address come from which group. Finally, the address that TB decides to put into the To: seems to be a total mystery. -- Best regards, Tonymailto:t...@parkinch.co.uk The Bat! 5.3.8.4 (BETA) Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
