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Title: A mysterious stranger appears in Mail’s To field Post by: HCK on September 07, 2016, 04:05:13 pm A mysterious stranger appears in Mail’s To field
<article> <section class="page"> <p> I was innocently checking the Mac 911 inbox and answering messages, when I noticed the To: field in Apple’s Mail app for OS X had changed. Instead of it showing mac911@macworld.com, an address I hadn’t put in my local Contacts list and given an associated name to, it showed the name of a recent correspondent. Let’s call her Amber Raptor.</p><p> So it appeared like: <code>To: Amber Raptor via mac911@macworld.com</code>. This was perplexing. Had Mail munged its settings? Had I clicked the wrong doodad and added Amber to my address book?</p><p> It does look like a bug, not an error on my part, as that person didn’t show up in my contacts list. However, I did find her in Previous Recipients, a list you can bring up from the Window menu. You may not know this list exists; colleague Jeffery Battersby explained how to manage the list (http://www.macworld.com/article/2975729/software-web/goodbye-to-the-ghosts-of-emails-past.html) last August. Previous Recipient helps in terms of filling out the names of correspondents, and also bypassing spam rule checking for someone you’ve emailed before (see Mail > Preferences > Junk Mail).</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3113076/software-productivity/a-mysterious-stranger-appears-in-mail-s-to-field.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: A mysterious stranger appears in Mail’s To field (http://www.macworld.com/article/3113076/software-productivity/a-mysterious-stranger-appears-in-mail-s-to-field.html#tk.rss_all) |