copying format of email addresses

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copying format of email addresses

Dear all,

This is a very minor issue, but it's a bit annoying nonetheless. It seems that with Snow Leopard, the format that you get when copying a contact's address (for example from the "To:" field of a new email you're composing) and pasting it somewhere has changed from the raw address (i.e. "tim@yourzine.com.cn") to the full address info (i.e. "Tim Metz <tim@yourzine.com.cn>").

Is there any way to switch this back as I use this quite a lot and 99% of the time I need just the address and not the brackets, full name, etc.

Thanks and regards,
Tim Metz

MacBook Pro 2.53 Ghz, Mac OS X (10.6.1)

Posted on Oct 8, 2009 11:52 PM

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Answer 1

larryd517

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Oct 9, 2009 1:40 AM in response to timmetz

not positive, but try
Mail/Preferences/Composing/Addressing/Uncheck Automatically complete address

Or

Remove the name from your previous recipients list (Mail/Window/Previous Recipients)

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Answer 2

Oct 9, 2009 6:56 AM in response to timmetz

Greetings,

That's incorrrect; this behavior has not changed in Snow Leopard, it's always been that way. Why can't you use the format as it's given to you, since you do want to know who you're sending email to, right?

If you want to get rid of the name, you'll have to remove the contact from Address Book and from your Previous Recipients list.

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timmetz Author

Level 1

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Oct 9, 2009 7:21 PM in response to Golden Shoes

Thanks for the answer. It's pretty strange though cause I use that a lot and I'm quite sure it wasn't like that before Snow Leopard.

And I know it's a very small thing, but I use it a lot to share contacts with people, send invitations on social networks and other online stuff, etc. and usually in those things it's best to just have the raw email address without all the extra info (the naming in my address book is not necessarily what I would like to share with other people 🙂

Anyway, very minor stuff, in dutch we call my behavior "ant f*cking" 😉

Regards,
Tim

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Answer 4

Nov 1, 2009 12:37 PM in response to timmetz

Hey Tim--

If you're still checking this thread, check this:

http://macdaddyworld.com/2009/09/14/fixing-copy-address-in-mail-on-10-6/

It's a way to change the way Mail copies the email address so it behaves the same way it did in the earlier version of Mail included with Leopard.

charlie

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Answer 5

Nov 5, 2009 5:50 PM in response to Charles Minow

Great fix. Yes, that changed in 10.6 and very annoying it is too. I thought I'd have to live with the changes.

Cheers!

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Answer 6

Jan 7, 2010 10:36 AM in response to Charles Minow

Great fix Charles... thanks so much. This was really bugging me.

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