Full Version: Entourage Mystery E-mail Addresses
From: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#11]
19 Dec 2005
To: ALL
= UPDATE =
Problem solved. My wife contacted Microsoft and thankfully, it was an easy fix.
No virus at all.
Here's the deal:
In the Entourage preferences, under "Mail & News preferences," select "compose." Under the list of preferences for "compose," at the very bottom of the window, you will see "Recent Addresses."
There is a box to check/uncheck, which is checked by default, which says, "Display a list of recently used addresses, when addressing messages."
Uncheck that box.
Under that line is a button that says, "Clear List." If you hit that button, everything on the list will go away. This means, if you want to save email contacts, they need to be added to your address book.
The "list" is much like the "History" of web browsers and can include deleted email addresses, which if the "Display a list..." box is checked, will appear as possible selections of email addresses to use, when composing an email.
EDITED: 19 Dec 2005 by DGL
From: Brett (BHALLE) [#12]
19 Dec 2005
To: ALL
David and All,
First, glad to hear the problem was found and fixed.
In regards to Mac viruses...Mac OS X, in particular, is very resistant to virus attack. Partly because the system is, by design, more secure but also because hackers don't tend to write them for the Mac (smaller target market, harder to write virus code, etc.). The one place, however, where you can be gotten fairly easily, however, is Microsoft Office applications. This is because many of the ones written for Windows still apply to the Mac version of Office (Visual Basic, Excel macros, etc.). If you exchange a lot of Office documents with others, particularly cross platform, a good virus checker (Symantec Antivirus, for example) is a must.
--Brett
EDITED: 19 Dec 2005 by BHALLE
From: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#13]
19 Dec 2005
To: Brett (BHALLE) [#12] 19 Dec 2005
I must say how nice it is to have an in-house Mac expert as a forum member. :-)
From: Brett (BHALLE) [#14]
19 Dec 2005
To: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#13] 19 Dec 2005
--Brett