Problem with former email addresses appearing as options when addressing emails.

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Problem with former email addresses appearing as options when addressing emails.

When I am typing in the name of the person I want to send an email to in Apple Mail version 3.6, all former addresses will appear for me to choose from, and before I know it I am sending emails to someone's old email address all the time.

How do you get rid of old email addresses so they won't appear as options when you are trying to send an email?

I'm using an older MacBook w/ OS X version 10.5.8, which I'm not sure if it makes a difference with my problem.

Help me, please!!!

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Aug 17, 2011 7:05 AM

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Answer 1

Aug 17, 2011 7:17 AM in response to lindafrommanhattan

This occasionally happens to me, and when I check in Address Book it turns out I have more than one email address listed there. (Mail gets its email addresses from Address Book). Check and see if that's the cause?

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Answer 2

Aug 17, 2011 8:23 AM in response to christopher rigby1

Thx so much, Christopher. I am finding out that there are several ways to deal with this issue, and it seems like there's a few different things I need to do. I am finding some under different related questions, but yours was helpful, too.

I went to Windows > Previous Recepients

and sorted and removed old addresses from there

But I also needed to go to address book and found an incorrect address for the spouse of my recipient, so I needed your solution, too.

It was also suggested that I

Right click on the old mail address when it appears when starting a new mail message, then click

remove from previous recipents list

I'll be doing all of these as it comes up.

Thanks again! I'm new to this support community, and am impressed!

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