Deleting addresses from Mail!

O.K. this sounds simple. When I go to write an e-mail (Mail 4.4)...If I put the first letter of the name in the TO that's fine....the names with all that letter come up. But, There are a lot of names and e-mail addresses that come up that are NOT in my address book. I recall some of them were from e-mails I've gotten or responded to in the past, but no longer use or am I in communication with that person. They are NOT in my Address Book. (Where are they?)
Where are they coming from? How can I delete them? Thanks

I have seen this issue arise from certain actions of the Time Machine, which was somehow restoring the file. Are you using Time Machine? Also from a corrupt file in the data base for the Address Book.
Got to rush away, but will check in later. Please read the discussion at the link below, and then respond in this topic:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11482785&#11482785
Ernie

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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,
Colin

Colin,
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 get permanently rid of unwanted addresses from Mail?

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.
Matt

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Is there any way to export email addresses from Mail into a CSV file? I know I can push it to Address Book then export but that mixes all the exports in with my existing addresses.

If you know SQL, you could export out of the previous recipients database file inside your user/Library/Application Support/AddressBook folder. It's a sqlite3 database.

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.
How can I remove this E-mail address so it no longer appears?
Apple iPhone 4S iOS 5.1
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?

Deleting addresses from New Message drop-down window

Hello all,
When I create a New Message in Mail, the FROM drop down menu contains several outdated addresses that I want to delete. How do I do this?
I am not asking how to delete previous recipient addresses from the TO window. I know how to do that.
Also, I have already deleted all traces of the old addresses from Accounts. Yet they stubbornly stay in the my drop down choices as accounts to send email FROM (ones which don't work).
Thanks,
_John

dwcop wrote:
Is it possible to delete web addresses from drop down window, when using Safari on my iPhone. I have a bunch of web address i don't want and i can't seem to get my iPhone to save the ones I want. The drop down menu I am refuring to is the one that appears below the web address your typing in!
Any web addresses you want saved, Simply add them as a Book mark
iPhone: Using Bookmarks
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1673?viewlocale=en_US
As far as removing sites you have been to and you don't want listed. perform the following steps
1. Close out of all your Tabbed pages.
2. Visit any site except the one you have bookmarked or don't want listed.
3. Go to Settings - Safari -Clear History, Cookies, and Cache, Repeat one more time for good measure.
4. Now launch Safari, It should not remember any of those sites you visited or searched for. And now you can browse freely. This needs to be repeated anytime you want to erase data search history.

How to delete addresses from Address Book

How do I delete contacts from my Address Book???

I don't understand the question... In particular, I'm not sure what you mean about how deleting e-mail addresses creates "no name entries". If you want to delete a contact, simply select it and choose Edit -> Delete Card (or just hit the delete key). If you want to remove an e-mail address while leaving the contact, select the contact, click the Edit button and then click the red '-' button next to the e-mail address.

Workaround for lack of way to add address from mail to existing contact

The original post below was deleted by Apple because it constituted "feedback" and was not a technical question. Of course it was a technical question. I was hoping someone would suggest a workaround or some way to actually get this to work . I am hoping Apple doesn't delete my post again (really....)
To be clear - Is there a workaround or am I missing something?
Why does Apple have to be so smart? Often, I want to add an email address from an email to an existing contact. If my computer recognizes the contact, I get "add to existing contact" in the right click dropdown. Frequently however, it doesn't recognize the contact and the only options I have are to add a new contact or copy the address and go to the contact and paste.
Why can't it have "add to existing contact" come up everytime like it does in windows? Then I will decide what contact to drop it in.
This is so frustrating. Just let the user have a little autonomy Apple!!!!!!!

Yea, hopefully they add this option from the dropdown menu, otherwise we have to keep creating "new contacts" for the same person. Quite frusterating considering that this option is available on the iphone version of mail.

A work flow to extract email address from mail

Can anyone help me. I have a bunch of emails that contain text information including an email address. I want a Automator workflow that will extract the email addresses from the emails and then save them as a comma separated text file.

Hi,
Try this workflow:
1) Get Selected Mail Items
2) Run AppleScript
In the "Run AppleScript", paste the following in:
on run {input, parameters}
set the output to {}
repeat with i from 1 to count of the input
set theMessage to item i of the input
set theContent to ""
tell application "Mail"
set theContent to the content of theMessage
end tell
if theContent is not equal to "" then
set output to (output & theContent)
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];
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If you select the mail messages that have the email information in them, then you can run the workflow and hopefully it does the right thing.
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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

Exporting addresses from mail to yahoo

How can I export my address list from mail to btinternet in Yahoo I have tried making a folder but this does not export please advise
I need my updated addresses online. from a foreign computer

Hello Rich.
The Apple Address Book exports contacts as vCard files only. The Address Book can export all contacts as a single vCard file (which is what your have) or it can export each contact as a separate vCard file which you should be able to import into your Windows email client since most support/work with the vCard format.
Tell the previous admin to do this.
To create multiple vCards at the same time, hold the Option key when dragging multiple selected cards out of the Address Book window to a created folder. The separate vCard files can be attached to an email message sent to you.
If your email client does not support/work with the vCard format when each contact is provided as a separate vCard file instead of all exported as a single vCard file, tell the admin to use Address Book Exporter utility.
http://www.gwenhiver.net/address-book-exporter.html

Deleting addresses from email

good day !
how do I delete unwanted addresses from my email app ?
cheers
Dutch

hi dutch,
take a look @ this discussion: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2371932&tstart=0.

Why Can't I slide email addresses from MAIL to ADDRESS BOOK :-(

Am I missing something?
Why can't I slide all the email addresses from an email to a group in my Address Boob. I am shocked that this is not easily possible.
Am I missing the easy way to do this?

In addition to the suggestions, [Mails Scripts|http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/Mail_Scripts.html] has an applescript that will collect all the addresses in an email and give you the option to select a subset and save to a group or make a new group.

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

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

Start by making a new message. Now type in the start of the mistake. When you see the mistake allow it to be put in the To: line. It should appear as a normal address with the little blue button around it. Now right click on the address and pick the choice *Remove From Previous Recipients List*. This should clear that mistake out. I just tried it and it worked for me.

Deleting addresses from Mail!

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