On 26/01/2006, at 10:31 AM, John Thompson wrote:
Hi All,
Each week I send our sporting results in to the "West". The
address I keep in my book begins with 'sportres'. Recently I had
to contact a person from the Dept of Sport & Rec in a country
centre; his address begins with 'sportrec' but I have not included
it in my Address Book. The procedure I have been using for years,
and consequently getting a bit casual with it, is to type 'spo' in
the To line and rely on Mail completing the address (I guess that
is fairly standard). I then accept and move on with the task. Now
here is the crunch.
Last week I went through the standard procedure and posted the
message. Checking my Sent box today shows my results from last
weekend went not to sprotres but to sportrec even though he is not
in my address book. Tried several dummy email's and the same thing
keep happening. Does Mail have a hidden repository of addresses
separate from Address Book that it draws on? If so, how can I
overcome this problem without having to become more attentive to
what I am doing.
Hi John,
From Mail Help:
To help ensure you don't send email to the wrong addresses, you can
specify "safe" Internet domains for your outgoing email. The domain
is the part of an email address that comes after the "@" sign, such
as "mac.com." If you want to be careful not to send email to anyone
outside your school or company, you could add your school's or
company's domain to the safe domains list. When you're composing a
message and you enter a recipient address that is not in a safe
domain, the address appears in red.
You can also use safe domains to help you prevent sending email from
the wrong account. Email accounts in domains that aren't "safe"
appear in red in the Account pop-up menu.
To set safe domains:
Choose Mail > Preferences and click Composing.
Select "Mark addresses not in this domain."
Enter one or more safe domains, separated by commas. For example,
"mycompany.com, myhome.net".
Safe domains are useful if you have selected "Automatically complete
addresses" in Mail Composing Preferences so that Mail displays
matching addresses as you are entering an address. If you
inadvertently select the wrong address and it is not in a safe
domain, it appears in red.
Cheers,
Ronni
