Mail addresses gone?

Where does Mail save all the mail addresses? I search this file. Because I have after the update to Leopard no more the automatic mail addresses recognition. For example I have received in 2005 an email from [email protected], so now when I want to write a new mail I could type in the field for the receipient john and mail didt usually the work for me showing up [email protected], even if he wasnt saved as a contact in the addressbook.
Please someone?
Thanks!
Message was edited by: Antoni Nadir Cherif

Hello bneely!
Great, thanks for the fast answer. Yes indeed, I know that this should be automatically. And I think it worked for me. But now this problem appeared and so I have to search in my Tiger backup for the right file. The big problem is now, how to convert the Tiger file into Leopard file!?

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Hi,
Go to the iPhone
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POP3 Mail & Address Book contacts have gone!

I recently did some housekeeping on my Mum's iBook G4 (OSX 10.4.10), part of which was purchasing and installing SpamSieve into Mail. This all went fine. Today she said all the mail in her POP3 inbox had gone, she couldn't send/receive and all her address book contacts had gone (Except hers and Apples).
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Didn’t you make a backup prior to the housekeeping?
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Imagine you buy a house. You have keys to the house and once inside, you buy all the funrniture you need - with one condition - because of some complicated distribution agreements with the furniture manufacturers, the seller mandates that the furniture you buy must be used only in that house.
Some day in the future, you lose the keys to your house so you buy the house next door with its own new set of keys. You go inside the new house and wonder where all your furniture has gone. Simply, you own both houses but
Upset at this situation, you try to recover your keys to your first house by asking the bank to mail them. You once had the chance to give the bank an alternate address to which they could mail keys but didn't so not they can only mail them to the first house. Since you can't get inside, you cannot retrieve the new keys that they send.
After getting some good advice, you decide to talk to visit the bank personally. You convince them you are the owner of house #1 and they give you a new set of keys. Yay!
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House = Apple ID
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Furniture Seller = Apple
Furniture Makers = App Developers, Film and Music Rights Holders
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