Stop Outlook contacts being auto-populated from emails

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Hi,
How do I stop my contacts being auto populated by the addresses in every
email I open?
Thanks
 
Outlook does not and cannot do this. Provide evidence to support your claim.
 
Russ what evidence do you want the email addresess of 10 people who were cc'd
in an email to me who now appear in my contacts. I'm not quite sure of what
evidence you require. This is happening to me on a daily basis without me
opening a 'new contact'. I have a Palm pilot that I sync with. But the email
addresses are definately coming from emails. So if anyone has a helpful
answer I would be very happy. Thanks

Russ Valentine said:
Outlook does not and cannot do this. Provide evidence to support your claim.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Tribalhunter said:
Hi,
How do I stop my contacts being auto populated by the addresses in every
email I open?
Thanks
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Again. Outlook does not do this. Viruses do. Add-ins do. Outlook can't.
I'd suggest examining your problem more closely and posting the exact steps
that allow someone else to reproduce your problem.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Tribalhunter said:
Russ what evidence do you want the email addresess of 10 people who were
cc'd
in an email to me who now appear in my contacts. I'm not quite sure of
what
evidence you require. This is happening to me on a daily basis without me
opening a 'new contact'. I have a Palm pilot that I sync with. But the
email
addresses are definately coming from emails. So if anyone has a helpful
answer I would be very happy. Thanks

Russ Valentine said:
Outlook does not and cannot do this. Provide evidence to support your
claim.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Tribalhunter said:
Hi,
How do I stop my contacts being auto populated by the addresses in
every
email I open?
Thanks
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Do the email addresses appear in your contacts or in your autocomplete cache? They are two entirely different beasties.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Tribalhunter asked:

| Russ what evidence do you want the email addresess of 10 people who
| were cc'd in an email to me who now appear in my contacts. I'm not
| quite sure of what evidence you require. This is happening to me on a
| daily basis without me opening a 'new contact'. I have a Palm pilot
| that I sync with. But the email addresses are definately coming from
| emails. So if anyone has a helpful answer I would be very happy.
| Thanks
|
| "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Outlook does not and cannot do this. Provide evidence to support
|| your claim. --
|| Russ Valentine
|| [MVP-Outlook]
|| message ||| Hi,
||| How do I stop my contacts being auto populated by the addresses in
||| every email I open?
||| Thanks
 
Hi Russ, I can't tell you the steps because I don't know how the addresses
are populating my contacts. Here is an example, I have received an email from
a person with an invitation to an exhibition, however the invitation was
imbedded & it didn't arrive with the email. So I emailed them back & asked
for the invitation as an attachment (this often happens from Mac to PC). The
persons name and email address eg (e-mail address removed) is now in my
contacts as Ben Hunter with the correct email address. Weird. I have now
noticed my Palm m515 which used to sync with Outlook contacts seems to be
syncing with Palm desktop. I have ZoneAlarms security suite which I have run
regularly with no viruses and Smapfighter. thanks Ben
 
I think they are in Contacts as that is what the Outlook folder is called & I
have no idea what autocomplete cache is. Contacts seems to review the email
addresses in contacts each time an email either arrives or is sent (I will
keep an eye out on this and find out which). If the email address doesn't
exist then it posts the new contact.
 
That means a person to whom you replied is being added to your Contacts. Not
a person from whom you received. But Outlook does not even do the former
except for the long obsolete IMO version of Outlook 2000. Is that what
you're using?
 
Russ, Icould well be using an IMO version, I am using Outlook 2000 which is
part of an Office 2000 Pro, service release 1, March 2003 & service pack 3
Feb 2003. What is IMO? is there a patch as I don't really want to upgrade as
everything else works fine.

Russ Valentine said:
That means a person to whom you replied is being added to your Contacts. Not
a person from whom you received. But Outlook does not even do the former
except for the long obsolete IMO version of Outlook 2000. Is that what
you're using?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Tribalhunter said:
Hi Russ, I can't tell you the steps because I don't know how the addresses
are populating my contacts. Here is an example, I have received an email
from
a person with an invitation to an exhibition, however the invitation was
imbedded & it didn't arrive with the email. So I emailed them back & asked
for the invitation as an attachment (this often happens from Mac to PC).
The
persons name and email address eg (e-mail address removed) is now in my
contacts as Ben Hunter with the correct email address. Weird. I have now
noticed my Palm m515 which used to sync with Outlook contacts seems to be
syncing with Palm desktop. I have ZoneAlarms security suite which I have
run
regularly with no viruses and Smapfighter. thanks Ben
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Look at line 2 of Help About.
If it says "Internet Mail Only" then you can easily find and turn off the
option to automatically save recipients. No one I know can check the path
because the version is so far out of support. It was never hard to find.

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Tribalhunter said:
Russ, Icould well be using an IMO version, I am using Outlook 2000 which
is
part of an Office 2000 Pro, service release 1, March 2003 & service pack 3
Feb 2003. What is IMO? is there a patch as I don't really want to upgrade
as
everything else works fine.

Russ Valentine said:
That means a person to whom you replied is being added to your Contacts.
Not
a person from whom you received. But Outlook does not even do the former
except for the long obsolete IMO version of Outlook 2000. Is that what
you're using?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Tribalhunter said:
Hi Russ, I can't tell you the steps because I don't know how the
addresses
are populating my contacts. Here is an example, I have received an
email
from
a person with an invitation to an exhibition, however the invitation
was
imbedded & it didn't arrive with the email. So I emailed them back &
asked
for the invitation as an attachment (this often happens from Mac to
PC).
The
persons name and email address eg (e-mail address removed) is now in
my
contacts as Ben Hunter with the correct email address. Weird. I have
now
noticed my Palm m515 which used to sync with Outlook contacts seems to
be
syncing with Palm desktop. I have ZoneAlarms security suite which I
have
run
regularly with no viruses and Smapfighter. thanks Ben

:

Again. Outlook does not do this. Viruses do. Add-ins do. Outlook
can't.
I'd suggest examining your problem more closely and posting the exact
steps
that allow someone else to reproduce your problem.
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Russ done thanks

Russ Valentine said:
Look at line 2 of Help About.
If it says "Internet Mail Only" then you can easily find and turn off the
option to automatically save recipients. No one I know can check the path
because the version is so far out of support. It was never hard to find.

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Tribalhunter said:
Russ, Icould well be using an IMO version, I am using Outlook 2000 which
is
part of an Office 2000 Pro, service release 1, March 2003 & service pack 3
Feb 2003. What is IMO? is there a patch as I don't really want to upgrade
as
everything else works fine.

Russ Valentine said:
That means a person to whom you replied is being added to your Contacts.
Not
a person from whom you received. But Outlook does not even do the former
except for the long obsolete IMO version of Outlook 2000. Is that what
you're using?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Hi Russ, I can't tell you the steps because I don't know how the
addresses
are populating my contacts. Here is an example, I have received an
email
from
a person with an invitation to an exhibition, however the invitation
was
imbedded & it didn't arrive with the email. So I emailed them back &
asked
for the invitation as an attachment (this often happens from Mac to
PC).
The
persons name and email address eg (e-mail address removed) is now in
my
contacts as Ben Hunter with the correct email address. Weird. I have
now
noticed my Palm m515 which used to sync with Outlook contacts seems to
be
syncing with Palm desktop. I have ZoneAlarms security suite which I
have
run
regularly with no viruses and Smapfighter. thanks Ben

:

Again. Outlook does not do this. Viruses do. Add-ins do. Outlook
can't.
I'd suggest examining your problem more closely and posting the exact
steps
that allow someone else to reproduce your problem.
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