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Tip: Get Rid of Those Extra Email Addresses in Mail.app

Autofill is handy with Mail, but what if Mail keeps putting your buddy's old email address that he doesn't use anymore?  Instead of scrolling down to the right one, it may be time for some simple housekeeping.

To clean out old addresses from Mail's autofill do this:

Click Window>Previous Recipients.  Then look through the list and delete what you don't need.  If you delete an address that is in your Address Book, no worries, it just removes it from Mail's Previous Recipient list, not Address Book.  Whew!

Comments

Anonymous said…
"If you delete an address that is in your Address Book, no worries, it just removes it from Mail's Previous Recipient list, not Address Book."

I think you mean if you delete it in your "Previous Recipient" list it doesn't remove it from your Address Book. Am I right?

Thanks for this great tip as I didn't even know you could do this! I'll definitely be using it in the future.
Bob Kuivanen said…
Yes, that is what I meant. Thanks for the clarification!
Cheers!

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