Adding addresses from Mail

Hey, Im sure that when I first used mail if someone sent me an email with their home address in it I could hover over said address and would be given the option to add it to my address book....but I dont seem to be able to anymore. Did this feature ever exist or have I made it up? And if it did how come It doesnt work for me anymore?
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Did this feature ever exist or have I made it up?
I can't say for sure because I'm not running 10.5. But if you hover over anything else, do you have any options to do anything with that data? If so, then I would guess that this feature never existed, since it would rely on Data Detectors, which you have no visible option to turn off. You can certainly add contacts to Address Book from Mail, but at least in 10.4.x that's a menu option, so I can't speak to whether or not that changed in 10.5.x.
Your profile says you're running 10.5.1; if that's true, is there some reason you haven't yet updated to 10.5.4? If you're already running that, you should update your profile so it's accurate.
Mulder

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OK here is the solution to the fix. I simply deleted the account in address book and set it up again.
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Has anyone tried to do something similar, or is there another way around this?
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The Mail.app stores all message recipients in the list of Previous Recipients and the autofill feature pulls from the Address Book and the list of Previous Recipients.
At the Mail.app menu bar, go to Window and select Previous Recipients.
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How do I get permanently rid of unwanted addresses from Mail?

I don't think there's a way to edit the previous recipients. Not easily, anyway.
I'd just delete what's wrong and make sure to get it right the next time.
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I send out a lot of emails that I would like to save in my address book. Address Book automatically sorts the address by first name or last name. This makes it virtually impossible to locate daily or hourly all the emails that you saved to your Address Book. Especially when your Address Book has over 3,000 addresses. Is there anyway to save email addresses using Mail directly to a Group in the Address Book?
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Welcome to the discussions, Big.
If you select an address in an email message you can drag it and drop it onto a group in Address Book, making a new contact and adding it to the group in a single operation. You can't do this from Mail's Previous Recipients window, though you can use the PR window, ordered by date, to see who you sent email to three days ago - but not hourly.
AK

Address field inserts my own email address from mail

Hello,
Having a couple of issues with Mail and Address Book applications.
1. When I am in the email application and want add a mailing address from the email to my existing contacts in Address Book, it successfully adds the physical address BUT it also always adds my personal email address in the email address field. WHy?
2. In the same situation, mail does not always highlight the entire mailing address, cutting off the street address. Are physical addresses font sensitive or format sensitive? For example, the email from friend goes like this:
My address
XXX Main Street Unit 1
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Looks like mail is confused with the "my address" and only allows the City, State, and zip to be added. I would think that mail would be much more smarter than this. If so, is there a workaround?
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Here are ways to add contact information:
In an address field of a message you’re sending, click the arrow in a Smart Address (an email address that appears within a blue field) and choose “Add to Address Book” from the pop-up menu.
In a message you’ve received, move the pointer over a phone number, email address, or street address anywhere in the text. Mail detects the information and outlines it as a field with a pop-up menu. Click the arrow and choose an option from the pop-up menu. For example, you can add the information to an existing contact or create a new contact. If you’re connected to the Internet, you can map an address.
In a message you’ve received, click the arrow in a Smart Address and choose “Add to Address Book” from the pop-up menu. Or select a message in the message window and choose Message > “Add Sender to Address Book.”
Choose Window > Previous Recipients. In the list, select an address and then click “Add to Address Book.” Addresses that are already in your address book have a card icon next to the name in the list.
To select addresses that are next to each other (contiguous) in the list, hold down Shift as you click the first and last addresses you want to add; to select addresses that are not next to each other in the list, hold down Command as you click each address.
More information can be found using Mail Help.

HT1694 how do I remove an email address from Mail that is not in my contacts list?

I have and E-mail address that comes up when I start typing an address into Mail when I create a new E-mail and this particular E-mails address is not associated with any of my Contacts.
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thank you
Dave

You're welcome.
If that email address is your Apple ID, I don't believe you can delete it.
If you have your cell phone number selected as your Caller ID, when sending an iMessage it will be sent from your phone number.
Since your Apple ID email address is registered as well, if someone has your email address in their contacts, they can select your email address to send you an iMessage in addition to your phone number.
When this recipient says you are sometimes sending an iMessage via email, it is received as an email with the Mail app on their iPhone, not with the Messages app?

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Try this workflow:
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on run {input, parameters}
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if theContent is not equal to "" then
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end if
end repeat
return output
end run
3) Run Shell Script
In "Run Shell Script", select "/usr/bin/perl" in the shell popup and "to stdin" in the pass input popup. Then paste the following in:
$input = join("", );
@emails = ($input =~ /\b[A-Z0-9._%-]@[A-Z0-9.-]\.[A-Z]{2,4}\b/ig);
while( @emails > 1 ) {
print shift(@emails) . ", ";
print @emails[0];
4) New TextEdit Document
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I want to copy the name with email address from Mail like I could before Mavericks

Hi There
I have resisted upgrading to Mavericks for all this time because Mavericks now stops the name of the contact being copied when I copy the email address from the sender. What is now copied is: '[email protected]'
What I want and what it used to be before Mavericks is: 'Dave Garnish <[email protected]>'
I know it sounds petty but it has stopped me upgrading for all this time, but now I need 4k monitor support.
Thanks in advance anyone who may have the answer to this.
Best
Dave

The following Terminal command used to enable the use of the name along with the email address:
defaults write com.apple.mail AddressesIncludeNameOnPasteboard -bool YES
(Change YES to NO to undo the change.)
I don't know if it still works.
You can also affect this feature in the mail message via Mail, Preferences, Use Smart Addresses. When unchecked the sender's address gets the name and angle bracket thing.
charlie

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Am I missing something?
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Am I missing the easy way to do this?

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Can't delete email address from Mail

I keep sending emails to the wrong address as when I start typing a name Mail seems to bring up a quite random address for the recipient if there are several.
Not only does it not default to the last address received from/sent to but it will enter an old address that has been deleted from Address Book.
I can still see the deleted address in Mail when I click on the address button [tho it is well deleted in Address Book] and the only option in Mail seems to be to delete the whole card.
Any suggestions most welcome,
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Have you checked Mail>Window>Previous Recipients for the old address? If not, attempt to "Remove From List" at that location and let us know what happens.
;~)

How do i erase a bad email address from mail?

Hello,
I once miss typed an email address in mail and it haunts me everyday. If I type the first three letters of the persons name, which is my habit, the bad address is attached to the mail. The result is that I get a server error when i try to send the mail. Then I have to save it as a draft in order to change the address to the correct one by typing fewer of more letters of the recipients first name. I would save myself allot of frustration if I knew where mail stores address shortcuts.
Thanks very much

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