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Mail.app's autofill on addresses? Is there a way to clean that out?
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OMGWTFBBQ
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Jul 13, 2004, 09:22 AM
 
When using Mail.app, I have it set to autofill.
As far as I understand it from what I have seen, when I send a new e-mail or reply to one, it recalls that addresses for future autofill reference.

It appears to do this outside of even what I have in the Address Book.

The issue I am having is that when I entered one address many months back (well over 6 months and probably closer to a year), I typed it incorrectly. It is a rather long address and I left out a letter.

I later went and fixed it, but when I type its association ("Dad" in this particular case), it brings up the wrong information for it (the misspelled address).

If I let it sit for a bit (one second, two?), then it seems to notice that I don't want that one and it looks for others - and then gives me a list of other potential matches - in which is the correct mapping to "Dad".

So even though in the address book it is now correctly mapped, and even though the only address I have sent it to over the past few months has been the correct one - it still tries to offer me the incorrect one each time I type in "Dad".

Is there a way I can get it to relearn whatever database it has created for that? Or does it exist in a user-editable file somewhere so that I could go in and remove the improper entry?
     
JKT
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Jul 13, 2004, 09:55 AM
 
In Mail, under the window menu is "Previous Recipients" which opens a list of addresses that you have typed into the To: or Cc: fields at any point. You can select individual or multiple addresses and remove them from the list.

I don't know if this is what holds this info, but I suspect that it is.
     
OMGWTFBBQ  (op)
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Jul 13, 2004, 12:25 PM
 
That did it, thanks!

(I feel stupid for not being able to find that on my own)
     
   
 
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