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Edit Smart Addresses in new Mail messages Apps
I just stumbled upon the fact that if you double click the Smart Address in a new Mail message, you can then edit it directly. This only works when writing a new message, however. Existing Mail is still broken such that you can't get around the "smart" address to simply copy the person's name.

[robg adds: While you can't double-click an address in an existing email, you can control-click and choose Copy Address to copy the actual email address.]
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Edit Smart Addresses in new Mail messages
Authored by: encro on Feb 13, '06 08:04:07AM

One edit feature I would really like to see added to Apple Mail is the ability to rename the message subject. Its so helpful in Outlook everyday when Clients choose to send an email but not write a subject or include something totally unhelpful and nondescriptive.



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Edit Smart Addresses in new Mail messages
Authored by: encro on Feb 13, '06 08:10:40AM

as per above, submitted to Apple as a Mail enhancement request before I forget about it :)



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Edit Smart Addresses in new Mail messages
Authored by: innate on Feb 13, '06 10:25:36AM

While I also hate non-descriptive subject lines, the way Outlook deals with it is nasty. It will actually modify the message *in the message store.* In other cases I have seen Outlook go as far as removing or altering MIME alternative message bodies. So you can never know that the message you are seeing, is the same as the message you received. A mail client should never modify the original message! If it wants to modify the message *presentation to the user*, that is fine.



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Edit Smart Addresses in new Mail messages
Authored by: jweill on Feb 13, '06 09:28:58AM

In Preferences > Viewing, you can uncheck "Use Smart Addresses" to show a more traditional name/address display in exsting messages.



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Edit Smart Addresses in new Mail messages
Authored by: sjk on Feb 16, '06 06:07:10PM

That's my preference for viewing recipient addresses. I don't trust Smart Addresses to reliably match my expectations.



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