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Copy and Paste addresses inside Mail

When I copy an email address inside a Mail doc, it not only copies the email but also copies their name and other random information. I know that in previous versions of Mail it would only copy the email address, how can I have it revert to this?

Posted on Jun 2, 2011 4:30 AM

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Aug 15, 2011 6:40 AM in response to CT

Hello,


I'm highly interested in the exact opposite function 🙂.


Let us say I have an entry within my Address Book which has the following fields:


    First :     Howard
Last : Liebner
E-mail : hal@andromeda.space


When I copy this E-mail address within Address Book and paste it wherever I need it, for example within Mail, I only get:


    hal@andromeda.space


which isn't sufficient to get an E-mail with a decent To: header field (one with real persons firstname and lastname).

What I would like to get is:


    Howard Liebner


which will display in any modern E-mail software (for example again Mail) as:


    Howard Liebner


Please note that for decency I gave here an example which isn't too "rude".

In real life I have to deal with E-mail addresses where the technical part, the one between

'<' and '>' range from completely stupid to rude (I trust your imagination to be able

to see what I mean, since everyone has to deal with such communication problems).




How may I systematicaly copy a complete E-mail address from Adress Book?

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Copy and Paste addresses inside Mail

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