Please is there a fix because im sick of typing address and it changing them to something else or it chasing all together.
MacBook Pro TouchBar and Touch ID, iOS 11.3.1
Hi there, TomLongRoad!
Thanks for reaching out to the Apple Support Communities! It sounds like you are having an issue with addressing emails to new recipients and Mail freezing altogether and I am happy to help out! First, take a look at this article with steps to follow to Use safe mode to isolate issues with your Mac. This will perform checks and stop certain software from starting up automatically. Once you are in safe mode, try to send an email and see if the issue persists. Then, restart your computer normally. Also, check out this article with steps for How to test an issue in another user account on your Mac to create a new user and test the issue in the new account to see if the issue is user specific or system wide. Just be sure you try to add the account to the test user.
Let me know the results and have a great day!
Create a new user account see this article How to test an issue in another user account on your Mac - Apple Support
And in this account configure the apple mail application see this article https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/mail/set-up-mail-with-your-email-accounts- mail35803/mac
the work around at this stage is to add new addresses to the contacts before sending them an email. but its really inconvenient.
It does this on another mac as well with the same email account loaded it seems to be a problem with the size of the contacts list. once it reaches a certain number of contacts it forces you to pick one or crashes.
Try to reduce number of contacts in address book and in old recipients list of mail application also , delete incorrect mail addresses or that are not used see some articles https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/mail/delete-old-email-addresses-mlhlp1113/ mac
https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/contacts/add-or-remove-group-members-adrbb b1811b7/mac
https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/contacts/delete-contacts-or-groups-adrb1f6 bae26/mac
See these articles also Mail Account Information preferences on Mac - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/mail/free-up-storage-space-mail14059/mac
Keep mailboxes from getting too big using Mail on Mac - Apple Support
mail doesnt let me type the address of a new recipient in the 'to' feild and instead either replaces it with an address I have previously sent mail to or beach balls altogether. its a MacBook Pro with current software.
