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coolmanoh
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address book

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Just checked my address book. It contains what looks like every address for every email I ever sent, including people I never heard of. Took me over an hour to clean it up. What do I have to do to prevent this from happening again?
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Re: address book

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Menu Path:
  • [If running on Windows]: Tools | Options, or
    [If running on OSX]: Thunderbird | Preferences, or
    [If running on Linux]: Edit | Preferences

    .. then Composition | Addressing
UNcheck Automatically add outgoing e-mail addresses to my [choice of address books]
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coolmanoh
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Re: address book

Post by coolmanoh »

Thanks for the help.
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