Deleting auto fill in email addresses Mac Mail
Status: Resolved
Publication date: 2017-12-02
Last edited by: Garyf
Last updated: 2023 - 08 - 22
The problem
This may be pushing an open door here, but recently I had a dispute with a company. I was dealing with the MD for that company, eventually the police were involved, but the issue I had wasn’t really about that, it was the fact that the person I had been dealing with had the same first name as my business partner. That bit will remain between my partner and I.
So, I needed to delete his contact from my autofill on Apple Mail. I know in Microsoft Office this is easily done, but not so much for Apple Mail. I found several solutions via Google.
The one that seemed to be the easiest is explained below.
The resolution
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Device: MacBook Air
Operating system: MacOS
Software: Apple Mail
Guidance for MacBook Air, MacOS, Apple Mail
Click on Windows, then “previous recipients”:
This will bring up:
Obviously, I have blurred the contacts to protect identities.
Highlight the contacts you want to remove:
Then click on Remove From List.
Job done, no more sending emails to someone you don’t want to by accident.
