On or near 3/4/01 8:56 AM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
> Select one message in your Inbox and press command-A to select all. Set the
> category of all messages to Junk.
<snip>
This is a rather drastic solution. Of course one does not want to classify
all mail as junk! (I realize you may be able to turn it off afterwards, but
as you say in the part I snipped, you'd have to continue to set all incoming
mail to junk to avoid having the list repopulate.)
There obviously need to be an option in Preferences about what is kept in
the popup list: Address Book only, or all new addresses.
I've found that, with time, I've grown to accept most of the clutter in the
list. The priority with which the list is sorted, in which most-used names
come to the top, seems to work sometimes, if not all the time. (If it isn't
working as it should, it needs to be fixed.) Actually, I find that if I type
three or four letters, nine times out of ten the name I want is already
highlighted. That's pretty darn good, and it doesn't matter if there are a
dozen junk names in the list.
The biggest problem I've had is a rather annoying one of slow response in
the program coupled with my own too-quick typing. Suppose I have a name in
my address book like "Robert Smith" that is my most common correspondent, so
that if I type "rob" and return, that address normally gets filled in. I
find that if I type very fast, "Rob" and return. The auto-complete lags a
little so that "Rob" <does not> locate and insert any address. Instead, I
get a field showing "Rob" as the total address, and there is an entry now in
the popup list for "Rob" with no associated address! The next time I type
"Rob", pause, and hit return without looking carefully, I match on the entry
with no address instead of "Robert Smith" who was my most popular entry
until now. No matter how many times I select "Robert Smith" as the name I
really want, the popup default continues to be "rob"; I presume because it
is an exact match for what I type.
In order to remove this phantom entry, I have to go into the Address Book,
create a contact with the name "Rob", and delete that contact.
First point: Either the auto-completion should work faster, or the entry
into the popup list should not occur if autocomplete hasn't had time to
fire.
Bottom line: There really should be a menu option <someplace> to remove
entries from the popup list.
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