[daydream]

I use Microsoft Entourage as my main email account however for daily viewing I use Apples Mail as I get to see when an email comes up.

I opened an email the other day and it just disappeared from there I thought nothing of it until later. I began to get weird new accounts in my address book folder. I did not start them they just show up from time to time.

Any ideas?

[daydream]

Any Ideas from anyone

[cpac]

you need to state your problem more clearly. The reason you haven't gotten more responses is because nobody understands just what the problem is.

Entourage & Apple's mail are "clients" or "programs" or "apps" not accounts.

Accounts are associated with a specific email address: .Mac, your job, your school, etc. - you have a .Mac account or a joe@school.edu account...

So what happened?

You opened an email... "and it just disappeared from there" - From where? What do you mean disappeared?

You began to get weird new "accounts in your address book folder" - Ok, new accounts? You mean like new entries? For new people, or companies? With phone numbers and addresses and things or what? And by in your address book folder you mean, in your Address Book application? Or in a specific mailbox? In Entourage or in Mail?

[daydream]

Sorry for being too vague. In Apples application "Mail" I received an email a month ago I opened it the document did nothing yet there was something weird about it in that just afterwards names started to show up in my address book. Ones that I did not put there also they are odd names and some look like code if you know what I mean when code writers right in a forum they will type out weird names. I delete them yet they keep coming back making me think there is some sort of script that is doing this.

[cpac]

Originally posted by daydream:
Sorry for being too vague. In Apples application "Mail" I received an email a month ago I opened it the document did nothing yet there was something weird about it in that just afterwards names started to show up in my address book. Ones that I did not put there also they are odd names and some look like code if you know what I mean when code writers right in a forum they will type out weird names. I delete them yet they keep coming back making me think there is some sort of script that is doing this.

ok you got an email and opened it.

this does nothing except show you the message.

did you download and run an attachment to the message?

names started showing up in your address book- I'm assuming you mean your Apple Address Book app... (if not please clarify)

that seems very odd as well. I don't know what you mean "look like code" at least not more than in a very generic sense.

Maybe you can take screen shots and post them?

Unlike in Windows/Outlook, email sent to Apple's Mail (and Macs in general) are unable to run scripts and things that would do this sort of thing. For it to be the email's fault, you would have had to: (1) get sent a malicious email targeted at Mac users (extremely unlikely) (2) downloaded an attachment from that email, (3) run that attachment by double-clicking, etc.

You can look in process viewer/activity monitor (in Utilities) to see if any weird programs are running the the background, but I strongly doubt that's what's happening.

[JKT]

IIRC, in earlier versions of Mail (the versions that shipped with 10.0.x to 10.1.x - I don't recall if it still happened in 10.2.x), Mail would populate a "temporary" folder of e-mail addresses in your Address Book which would be all the addresses from people that had sent you a message but were not yet stored in one of your user-defined groups. Both useful (as you had someone's address if you forgot to save it) and annoying (owing to SPAM). So, what version of OS X do you have?