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Why does Thunderbird sometimes add the beginning of an email address to the end of the address

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For some reason Thunderbird arbitrarily adds the begging of an email to the end of it thus: joebloggs@bloggs.comjoe so I get is sent back as undeliverable. This only happens with emails in my address book (and then not always) and I remove the added 'bad' version immediately but it still surfaces the next time I send an email to that person. Any solution?

For some reason Thunderbird arbitrarily adds the begging of an email to the end of it thus: joebloggs@bloggs.comjoe so I get is sent back as undeliverable. This only happens with emails in my address book (and then not always) and I remove the added 'bad' version immediately but it still surfaces the next time I send an email to that person. Any solution?

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I start to type in an email address. Thunderbird predicts who I'm sending it to and completes the address. At this point it looks right. then I hit return (Mac wired keyboard and wired mouse). If I look carefully, sometimes it replaces the last > which surrounds the email address with the first few letters of the person's name like this: Joe Bloggs <joe@joebloggs.comjoe instead of Joe Bloggs <joe@joebloggs.com> so it gets bounced back as undeliverable. </p>

Mac Mini running OS 10.6.8 Thunderbird 38.5.1 Plenty of RAM and using a 0.5tb SSD

That is a fully as I can describe it.

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Lookup the recipients email address in your address book. Check all address books, including Collected Addresses.

Is the contacts email address correct?