Turn off autocomplete in Mail - the unanswered question

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Turn off autocomplete in Mail - the unanswered question

I've just switched onto a new mac in our studio, going from an older MacPro on 10.5 to a newer iMac.

Current spec is OS 10.9.5 with Mail 7.3

As I deal with many different customers with similar names, I used to have autocomplete addresses turned off in Mail. This forced me to manually select the email addresses I want from my Contacts book and not end up sending emails to the wrong person which could (has) proved embarrassing.

It used to be Preferences - Composing - Addressing - Automatically Complete Addresses.

However it is not longer there in Mail.

This question has been asked a few times on this and other forums and doesn't ever get a reply.

Surely there is a way to turn autocomplete off ?

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)

Posted on Mar 6, 2015 3:01 AM

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Roote

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Mar 6, 2015 6:18 AM in response to Matt HD1

This forced me to manually select the email addresses I want from my Contacts book...

Rather than type in the address field, which triggers autocomplete, Click "+" to choose people from Contacts, then press Enter.

Screenshot from Yosemite and Mail 8.2, but according to the links below Mail 7.3 should be similar:

Mail (Mavericks): Address messages

Mail (Yosemite): Address an email message

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Matt HD1 Author

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Mar 6, 2015 8:59 AM in response to Roote

Now blatantly obvious but good shout.

Thanks

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