A friend of mine retired and is down to one personal e-mail address and I have deleted his old work e-mail address and another old and obsolete personal address from his contact. But when I go to type an e-mail and enter his name these old e-mail addresses still appear as choices. How do I make those go away?
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How do I get rid of obsolete e-mail addresses?
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Is this in the built-in Mail app? You could check Previous Recipients in the Window menu and see if they are still hanging around there.
Yes, the mac mail app. I don't understand what you are sugesting?? Window menu?? When I go to address an e-mail to Kurt, it gives me 4 choices, only one of which is still his valid e-mail and contained in his contact info. Where and how can I delete these other 3 that are dead?
It’s right here… this is the MacOS Tahoe 26.1 Mail menu, if you’re using an older version of MacOS it might look different. This will open a window showing every email address you’ve ever sent to. I occasionally go in and delete ALL of them, so future emails will depend on my current Contacts only. If you’ve never cleared these out you may have hundreds of old email addresses in here.
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I just updated to Tahoe and got this done. Easy when you know where to look for it. LOL. Thanks, guys.