[MlMt] Address scheme

[Allie Martin]

On 16 Apr 2015, at 6:15, Thomas Grundberg wrote:

> The recipient address looked like this:
> "Firstname Lastname something at gmail.com [listname]" <listname at 
> yahoogroups.com>

I've noted this most annoying yahoogroups From name munging system 
apparently put in place to protect subscriber addresses from spammers.

> The email was intended for the recipient with the gmail address, but 
> instead went to a Yahoogroup. When I addressed the email, only the 
> first part was visible in the address field, which probably 
> contributed to me not noticing the wrong address.

Interesting that only the first part was visible.  hmmm.  Usually, I see 
the whole address.  But then, I typically send to only one address and 
only occasionally, to multiple recipients.

> As I also have a valid address to the same person – "Firstname 
> Lastname something at gmail.com" – that pops up in the “To” 
> field, I suppose that Mailmate somehow is trying to be helpful by 
> picking up these kind of addresses from previous emails to this and 
> other mailing lists.

Yes.  But it's not MailMate doing this but your system contacts.

You likely have your system contacts syncing with your contacts in your 
provider address book.

> Is it possible to get rid of this helpfulness?

What I had to do to prevent this was to disable the automatic creation 
of new contacts for 'unknown' recipients in my email provider address 
book that syncs with my Mac's contacts..

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a Curtis m