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<body><div style="font-family: sans-serif;"><div class="plaintext" style="white-space: normal;"><p dir="auto">On 21 Nov 2023, at 14:00, Espresso Saarinen wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="margin: 0 0 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid #777777; color: #777777;"><p dir="auto">mailmate seems to have an internal address book. it is causing embarrassing mis-addressing. how do i find it and adjust its attitude?</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">MailMate uses the Mac OS’s Contacts database, but it also has an extra auto-complete function that extracts suggested address completions from a specified mail folder. You configure which folder it scans and the email header to use (or you can disable this feature) in the Composer tab of the Preferences dialog.</p>
<p dir="auto">One way to get rid of a bad address completion is to delete all the messages that use it from your chosen auto-complete folder. If it’s just one or two bogus messages, that’s an easy fix.</p>
<p dir="auto">MailMate also maintains a simple “Blacklist” of email addresses that should never be used for auto-complete. You add address to the Blacklist by right-clicking on it in an email header, then selecting “Add [address] to Blacklist”. You’ll get a choice of adding the address with the descriptive name, or just the pure address. The former allows you to block embarrassing misspellings of a name without blocking the email address itself.</p>
<p dir="auto">Note that there is no user interface for removing names from MailMate’s Blacklist, but you can fairly easily edit the file ~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Blacklist.plist to remove entries if need be.</p>
<blockquote style="margin: 0 0 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid #777777; color: #777777;"><p dir="auto">and, when the addressee is in my contacts.app, how does the dang thing decide between their home and work addresses and how do i tell it what i want?</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">I think all email addresses in the Contacts.app database are available for auto-complete (unless they have been blacklisted). You choose which one to use, not MailMate. As you type an address, you should see a list of all partial matches to choose from using your mouse, or the up/down arrow keys followed by Enter.</p>
<p dir="auto">Glenn P. Parker
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glenn.parker@comcast.net</p>
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