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.par...@comcast.net
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