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How can I erase an email address from the "autofill" memory?

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sutapper
sutapper

I manage a lot of lists, and if somebody's email address changes, I want to be able to delete that address from the autofill feature. Can I do that?

I manage a lot of lists, and if somebody's email address changes, I want to be able to delete that address from the autofill feature. Can I do that?

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bhawbaker
bhawbaker

That didn't work for me. I searched all the T-Bird address books and none of them had the name I was looking for. I was looking for names or addresses that had the word "chuck" in them. Couldn't find any. Yet 5 of them show up in autocomplete when I enter "chuck" in the address field of the new mail.

There really needs to be a way to reset that, or point T-bird to where it looks.

Does it look in outgoing mail boxes? If so, it's going to match on mis-typed names or addresses, which is what I'm trying to get rid of.

user01229325
user01229325

When addresses like these are hard to find, you can start an email addressed to the old address and then save it to Drafts. From there you can select the address and open the edit dialog box and remove it.

All these addresses are in your address books somewhere like stated above. It probably got stored without a display name and will not appear easily.