How can I stop Thunderbird from spontandously adding entries to my address book?
It appears that every e-mail address in the headers of every e-mail I receive is added to my address book. Many are duplicates. Thanks.
It appears that every e-mail address in the headers of every e-mail I receive is added to my address book. Many are duplicates. Thanks.
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Thunderbird is designed to collect addresses you send to that aren't already in your address book, and this can be configured under Tools|Options|Composition|Addressing.
But it has not, for a very long time, offered to automatically collect addresses from incoming messages. If you wanted this ability you'd have to find an add-on.
Are you sure it's collecting incoming addresses? What add-ons do you have? Try in Safe Mode to see if it goes away.