Basic Mail Question

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  1. reykjavik, Mar 28, 2006

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    Whenever I start to type in my fathers email address Mail usually finishes it for me, which is great, however, over the years it has for some reason tacked on his address over and over again. Now when I start to type in his name, it fill sin a paragraph long version of his email address, all of them being the same thing (except some have a capital letter in them).

    How do I fix this or get rid of it entirely and start from scratch with only this one email address?
     
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  2. WildCowboy, Mar 28, 2006

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    Mail gets that info from Address Book. Open Address Book and see what it says under his e-mail address. If that's where the problem is coming from, just edit it there in Address Book and you should be all set.
     
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  3. reykjavik, Mar 28, 2006

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    Thats what I originally thought, but when I went there, not only was that long string of addresses not there, but there was no email address listed for him at all.
     
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  4. snickelfritz, Mar 29, 2006

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    I'm not sure about this, but mail may be getting the auto-complete from the sent messages folder.
     
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  5. mkrishnan, Mar 29, 2006

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    In Mail, select Window -> Previous Recipients from the menus. Type in a portion of this individual's e-mail address into the search bar. If you find any entries for this person, highlight them and select "Remove From List." This is the management system for the "previous recipients" history of e-mail addresses that are not in your address book. :)
     
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  6. reykjavik, Mar 30, 2006

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    That did it, thanks so much!
     
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