Outlook: Sending to the Wrong Email Address

Posted Mon, Nov 9 2009 12:31 by Deborah Kurata

One of my friends sends an email message to me telling me about their great new job and letting me know that they have a new email address. I dutifully update my Outlook Address book and fix the address.

Five unanswered emails later, I realize that I have been sending email to the WRONG email address. Even though I fixed my Outlook Address book, the Outlook Most Recently Used (MRU) list still has the OLD email address. What's to be done?

Then Beth Massi shared with me an Outlook tip that I want to pass along: You can delete items from the MRU in Outlook!

Say I am typing in John's name:

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If I am not watching closely, I will send it to the wrong address again (nowhere.com).

To prevent this mistake:

  1. Highlight the incorrect address.
  2. Press the Del key.

The unwanted MRU entry is then deleted.

Enjoy!

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# re: Outlook: Sending to the Wrong Email Address

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 4:09 AM by Richard Pawson

Very helpful tip, Deborah.  It's a pity the same thing doesn't work for auto-complete fields on the browser.

(I was once completing a UserName and Password dialog and didn't hit Tab properly between the fields, so my password got typed in in plain text alongside the username.  The next time I was logging on -  in a demo - up came the suggestions drop-down complete with the UserName+Password combination, for all to read!)

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