Stubborn previous recipient won't delete
I'm trying to remove a previous recipient's email address and it won't cooperate. Although I've deleted it from the Window/previous recipients list, it still shows up and autocompletes itself. I also tried deleting the Users/my name/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/MailRecents-v4.abcdmr file and logging out & back in; didn't help. Thanks-
the only other place it could be is your address book. open address book and search for this email.
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does anyone know how to add a "Previous Recipient" beyond simply seleccting the contact and checking the box to add?
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TIA> You will see the Previous Recipients list and AB list in Mail will change to First-Last name view.
You are referring here to getting the SORT ORDER to change? I mean, you are indicating that if I change preferences for sort order - well - it did not appear to change anything in an /existing/ linked contact from Mail but you are saying that i need to close and restart AB to get the new sort to take effect before relinking more contacts from Mail...?
Not sort order, view order of First Name before Last. In order for the Previous Recipients list to change in Mail, you need to quit Mail (not AB) and reopen it. It will then change the list view to First-Last name view. Sort order remains sorted by Last name. If you want the sort order by first name, you can do that too.
> In a message window, most email addresses show first name & then last name. If you are viewing last name first, then it gets put backward in AB and won't match an existing contact. I have tried it an got the name added to show the correct order in AB.
OK, but i am doing something wrong here then because all my combinations cause imported Mail contacts to show up as Last Name - First Name when i have sorted by First Name - Last Name and vice versa if I changed settings in AB preferences...
Change the view order to First-Last name in AB (not sort order). If you are importing contacts from a different source, then I guess that would depend on how it's information is saved. If you are importing from mail messages ((note that I'm referring to how incoming messages are recieved), then the view order (First-Last) is what usually gets sent from people when a name is tagged to it. When adding an address from a mail message, Mail recognizes the name in the header field as First-Last and that's how they get saved to AB. If your view in AB is Last-First displayed, then it gets put in backwards.
As I said, set the viewing order in AB to First Name before last name. Quit Mail and reopen Mail. Your previous recipient list in Mail should change to show First-Last name. Sort order will depend on setting in AB.
> Names must be the same for it to recognize as a duplicate.
OK, presumably this also includes capitalizations? Anyway, i am doing something wrong because i don't get the first and last order sorted correctly under anything i am doing.
I'm not sure about capatilization, but "Tom Test" does not equal "Thomas Test", or "Tom Test" does not equal "Test Tom".
> If the name already exists in AB, the drop down list in a messages address window will change to "add to contact" (where it will just add that address to the contact).
OK, so you are referring here to an option to add a contact (i guess we are only adding the email in this case if the contact is already in AB...?) when doing an entry in a Mail Message - which is different from ADDING CONTACT from the Previous Recipients list?
Yes. If the contact exists and let's say you recieve a message from them using a different email address, you will have the option in the dropdown to add the address to the existing contact instead of creating a new one.
The previous recipients list is a database file and I don't believe you can directly import from it. It isn't stored as VCards like the AB data is.
Only thing I can suggest is to play with it and see if you can get it to work for you. Getting it to import the name order to match correctly in AB would be a big step to resolving duplicates. Even if the names don't match exactly and they don't get merged, it would be much easier to spot in a list where the names are close together. If the Last name and First get reversed on the import, then the names will not show close in the list and will be hard to spot.
I think this is a problem trying to get addresses from different sources no matter which application you use.
I wish Mail has a setting to display names differently than AB. I like AB sorted and viewed by Last Name. But I would like my messages displayed in Mail headers as first name when sending or recieving. You don't have any control on addresses that aren't in the AB on how the name tags come in. But as I said, addresses not in AB will generally be displayed First-Last name (providing they have names tagged to it).
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Play with it and I just hope it works out for you. Never said it would be easy or flawless. -
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If one mistakenly tries to send a message to an e-mail address that does NOT exist, that recipient continues to show up as a future possible address when creating new e-mails. In other words, when I later create a new e-mail and start typing the person's name, in the field below where it is searching through my Contacts, it will ALSO show that previous incorrect address. On my computer, one can go into Mail>Window>'Previous Recipients', and I could delete it...however...there is no way to do that on the iPhone. Note that I have already tried to reset my iPhone by deleting the Mail account and then reactivating...and I have also tried to go to a Mac that syncs with the iPhone to go into the Mail program and delete it from 'previous Recipients', but those do not show up. Thanks. Ken
since you have a mac you can do this:
1. Quit Mail, AddressBook, and probably all other apps would be a good idea.
1. Delete the ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/mailrecents-v4.xxxxxx file
2. When deleting this file, I had to type my admin password.
3. Restart Mail
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6. Go to Edit>Select All
7. Delete the entire list
Now when you quit Mail and then restart it, the list should stay empty.
I just searched it for you and this is what others did. I like keeping all other recipients in my phone , if I use them or not. -
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Nathan
My email was set up this way already on my iPhone and it didn't fix the "won't delete" problem. Again the issue is that it worked fine in all of the previous versions of the iPhone software, but something has changed in 2.2 that won't allow deletes on the iPhone, even with .mac mail. What has changed?Try restarting your iPod by holding down the on/off and home buttons at the same time until you see the Apple logo, if that don't work try double clicking your home button to open your multi-task window hold you finger on the first app until it start to wiggle and the red minus sign shows up in the left corner tap the red minus sign to close all of your open programs.
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'''bold text'''Thunderbird crashes regularly when I try to delete email. ALL MAIL doesn't work at all and won't allow me to delete anything. I have gone to Properties many times and tried to repair ALL MAIL but it doesn't work.
I was also unable to open and read any of your responses to previous questions that appear to be similar.
I like many of the features of Thunderbird but am about ready to give up. Help, please.Is Thunderbird really crashing when you try to delete mail, or is it not responding?
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What exactly does this mean?
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''I was also unable to open and read any of your responses to previous questions that appear to be similar.''
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