Hello,
if i was to send an email from my iphone to someone called
chris@xxx.com it would save the email address automatically somewhere but not create a contact in my phone book/ contacts...
however, if i was to write a new email to some one called
Colin@xxx.com once i started to type in the 'C',
chris@xxx.com would populate from somewhere - but i dont know where!!!
is there a way to clear the email address history like there is a way to clear your internet history
cheers
MollyDog
Yes you can do what you are asking, I just did it myself last week. I'm at work and don't have time to search for instructions right now. If you don't find it yourself, I'll post back with a link and/or instructions on how to do it.
It involves downloading a small free database editor if you don't already have one, SSHing into your phone, editing a copy of your AddressBook.(can't remember the ext.), editing out the email address you want to remove under ABRecent tab in the database, saving it and SSHing the file you edited back into the directory you copied the file from (replacing it, but keep an original to be safe), exit SSH and respring. Done!
Later...
Update:
Here is how I removed a single email address not in my contacts as you described above (you will have to be jailbroken, if not you may have to Restore).
I figured out a way to delete the email addresses, it's not very difficult. It worked without a problem on my phone.
You're iPhone will have to be jailbroken so you can ssh into:
/private/var/mobile/library/addressbook
You then copy out AddressBook.sqlitedb
It would be best to create a backup of this just in case something goes wrong.
Then what you'll need to do is open the file with a SQLite Database manager, I for example downloaded Visual SQLite (for free) off of download.com.
Then after installing and opening the file (AddressBook.sqlitedb) you can go ahead and delete the contact you wish to remove by:
Under Table selecting: ABRecent
Selecting the Table Data tab
And then scrolling down, finding the person, and....delete
So then you save the file, ssh it back to the same folder in your iPhone, replacing the existing one. I first rebooted my phone before checking to see if the address was gone.
Hope this helps...
