Mail keeps providing addresses for contacts that are either obsolete or irrelevant. Some of these addresses I used once fifteen years ago. I'm not sure where the system is finding these or how I clear them out / turn off the function that finds them. I've cleaned out the "Previous Recipients" window a number of times but that doesn't seem to have any effect. OS is 10.13.6. Any idea? Thanks in advance. / BB
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.13
yugojnab wrote:
Not synching to anything as far as I know. See ya! =
Guessing is not productive nor it it helpful in trying to help with Technical Details
The devil is in, this case, in the Details
OP wrote " which I guess means de-linking to those accounts, "
If you do not know for certain if Contacts is using more than one Source
As we do not have direct and physical access to to this machine
It becomes impossable for us to see what you are seeing or not seeing
Suggest re-reading from an earlier posted link
Is Contacts Only using iCloud as the source
Is Contacts using More than one Source to sync, like iCloud + Google + Yahoo, + ??? ?
Only you can answer these questions
Gather contacts from all your accounts
The operative wording " All Accounts "
If you keep contacts in other Internet accounts—such as iCloud, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Yahoo!—you can access all of them in Contacts. To add your contacts from an Internet account, just choose Contacts > Add Account, select the account type, then click Continue.
Thanks, good points.. I was lost gazing into my crystal ball. :)
Reply appreciated but not mentioned was how to (1) clean out the addresses I don't want (which I guess means de-linking to those accounts, which I don't remember asking for in the first place) (2) ensuring that Mail doesn't keep doing this. Thanks!
Hello, Mail>Window>Previous Recipients, highlight the ones you don't want & click the Remove from list button.
Thanks but I've tried this already and the app keeps coming up with ancient addresses. I have no idea where it's finding them or why, so I can't stop it. =
Are you syncing to iCloud or such?
BDAqua wrote:
Are you syncing to iCloud or such?
All yours my friends
Am out of here
Not synching to anything as far as I know. See ya! =
Actually, I and the author both need your help on it now if you would be so kind.
Just back, gazing into my 2nd expresso ☕️
Address book problem - can't clean out old ones
