If there is date and time information in an e-mail, I still get the 'dotted box' by hovering over it, but this no longer produces the 'create event' drop down.
I was using this feature a good deal so would really like to fix it.
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), 16Gb RAM, SSD
This bad behavior survives a restart?
Yes. It's been going on solidly for a few weeks. As well as Calendar, the behaviour is the same for highlighting telephone numbers and porting them into Contacts. So it looks Mail itself has stopped being as smart as it used to be.
I can't find preferences or controls to enable or disable this functionality, but I'm sure I remember reading that it could be controlled.
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'Data Detectors'. Thanks Linc - that was the phrase I couldn't recall.
Using the link you sent <Data Detectors don't show up in Mail>, the first fix worked for me, i.e. the deletion of:
com.apple.DataDetectors.DataDetectorsActionService
com.apple.DataDetectorsDynamicData
from ~/library/containers
Normal service seems to have been resumed - thanks you very much for your help.
Sorry - that should also have read: 'Thanks to CT'.
It's Linc's guidance in the other topic that did the trick, but thanks CT for pointing me there.
Mail no longer creating Calendar events
