[MlMt] address book

[Glenn Parker]

On 21 Nov 2023, at 14:00, Espresso Saarinen wrote:

> mailmate seems to have an internal address book.  it is causing 
> embarrassing mis-addressing.  how do i find it and adjust its 
> attitude?

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.

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.

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.

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.

> 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?

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.

Glenn P. Parker
glenn.parker at comcast.net
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