{"id":3663,"date":"2018-09-06T17:53:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T00:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3663"},"modified":"2018-09-06T17:53:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T00:53:35","slug":"working-around-apple-mails-auto-complete-misfeature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3663","title":{"rendered":"Working around Apple Mail&#8217;s Auto-Complete Misfeature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you use an address book, Apple Mail can be <em>very<\/em> aggressive about auto-completion, to the point that your ability to send messages to an arbitrary address ends up being seriously compromised. There&#8217;s a simple workaround to this problem: enclose the address in angle brackets, e.g. &lt;user@host.com&gt;.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/7880579\">an old discussion thread on apple.com<\/a> (without any resolution) about this, but not much else, so I figured I&#8217;d put it up here just in case it gets indexed and ends up being useful to someone.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;m using Apple Mail again\u2026 for now\u2026 and only on my new work computer. That&#8217;s because others there report it interoperates better with their mail server than Thunderbird. I have the sneaky feeling that I&#8217;ll bail on Apple Mail within a month or two, but might as well be a good sport and give it an honest chance.<\/p>\n<p>Keywords: Apple, Mail, address book, autocomplete, disable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you use an address book, Apple Mail can be very aggressive about auto-completion, to the point that your ability to send messages to an arbitrary address ends up being seriously compromised. There&#8217;s a simple workaround to this problem: enclose the address in angle brackets, e.g. &lt;user@host.com&gt;. There&#8217;s an old discussion thread on apple.com (without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}