Email Addresses retained
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- SilverLounger
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Email Addresses retained
Outlook.com
When Search is used a list of past contacted email addresses is displayed of those that are not in your Contacts.
How can these be deleted since most are not needed.
Help was ... of no help
When Search is used a list of past contacted email addresses is displayed of those that are not in your Contacts.
How can these be deleted since most are not needed.
Help was ... of no help
CYa Ron
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Re: Email Addresses retained
Does this help:
Click the gear icon at the top right of the Outlook.com window and then click More mail settings
In the Customizing Outlook section, click Advanced privacy settings
Make sure that Only suggest people in my contact list is selected
Click Save
I distilled the above from here:
https://askleo.com/how-do-i-use-and-cle ... ggestions/
which was the first hit about outlook.com (as opposed to Outlook) on a Google search using the keywords 'outlook.com clear autocomplete'.
Ken
Click the gear icon at the top right of the Outlook.com window and then click More mail settings
In the Customizing Outlook section, click Advanced privacy settings
Make sure that Only suggest people in my contact list is selected
Click Save
I distilled the above from here:
https://askleo.com/how-do-i-use-and-cle ... ggestions/
which was the first hit about outlook.com (as opposed to Outlook) on a Google search using the keywords 'outlook.com clear autocomplete'.
Ken
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Re: Email Addresses retained
Hi Ken,
That article is from 2013. I cannot find that option in the current version of Outlook.com...
That article is from 2013. I cannot find that option in the current version of Outlook.com...
Best wishes,
Hans
Hans
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Re: Email Addresses retained
Thanks Ken but it seems that this possible method of removing email 'contacts' has been changed and despite searching all Settings I am still
Looking further into the article you found, one can read:
One of the risks of writing about Outlook.com or Hotmail… or let’s face it, anything on the internet … is that things change. Nowhere is that more common than with online email offerings. So if you don’t see exactly what I’ve described here, start exploring. Rarely are features like this actually removed. The concepts that I’ve outlined should still apply. You may just need to hunt around a little for the links and interfaces to control them.
I think that 'things have changed ... for the worse ... at least on the outlook.com web version I use on my Windows 10. Also I can not find any setting on my Android outlook.com app.
Oops ... Hans beat me to it
Looking further into the article you found, one can read:
One of the risks of writing about Outlook.com or Hotmail… or let’s face it, anything on the internet … is that things change. Nowhere is that more common than with online email offerings. So if you don’t see exactly what I’ve described here, start exploring. Rarely are features like this actually removed. The concepts that I’ve outlined should still apply. You may just need to hunt around a little for the links and interfaces to control them.
I think that 'things have changed ... for the worse ... at least on the outlook.com web version I use on my Windows 10. Also I can not find any setting on my Android outlook.com app.
Oops ... Hans beat me to it
CYa Ron
W11 pc, Android toys.
The only reason we have the 4th dimension of Time is so that everything does not happen at once.
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Re: Email Addresses retained
This is a sort of work around ...
https://support.office.com/en-us/articl ... b037bce23e" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
But it does seem that Microsoft will always retain (somewhere) all contacts ... for what reason one may ask.
https://support.office.com/en-us/articl ... b037bce23e" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
But it does seem that Microsoft will always retain (somewhere) all contacts ... for what reason one may ask.
CYa Ron
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The only reason we have the 4th dimension of Time is so that everything does not happen at once.
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Re: Email Addresses retained
That article is for the desktop version of Outlook, not for Outlook.com...
Best wishes,
Hans
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Re: Email Addresses retained
... but the bit I like (and didn't realise) is that you can remove so called recent contacts in the Search of an email by hovering over it and clicking the x to remove. Thus the useful auto complete is still useful.HansV wrote:That article is for the desktop version of Outlook, not for Outlook.com...
CYa Ron
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Re: Email Addresses retained
RonH wrote:...it seems that this possible method of removing email 'contacts' has been changed...
Don't you just love it when something useful gets fangled, As in, "Wow, look at this new fangled feature."HansV wrote:...I cannot find that option in the current version of Outlook.com...
Ken
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Gentlemen ... my ageing grey matter has just notched up more miles. Time for a late afternoon nap
Thank you both for taking time out ... must be also lousy weather in your territories
Thank you both for taking time out ... must be also lousy weather in your territories
CYa Ron
W11 pc, Android toys.
The only reason we have the 4th dimension of Time is so that everything does not happen at once.
W11 pc, Android toys.
The only reason we have the 4th dimension of Time is so that everything does not happen at once.
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Re: Email Addresses retained
That's how it goes - old stuff gets fashioned, and new features get fangled...stuck wrote:Don't you just love it when something useful gets fangled, As in, "Wow, look at this new fangled feature."
Best wishes,
Hans
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Re: Email Addresses retained
It started off wet here today but now, as the sun sinks towards the horizon, the clouds are breaking up. About an hour ago we even saw patches of blue sky
Ken
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Re: Email Addresses retained
What you are seeing used to be called the "nickname" list in the Outlook desktop app. Now, it is suggested recipients. I believe those are retained because Microsoft has determined that users often do not create contacts for email addresses that they've used and often want to re-use the email addresses. This is just a quick way to retain those addresses and make them easily available. Unfortunately, there is no easy way in the web app to turn this off or clear the list. You have to use the workaround.
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Re: Email Addresses retained
I can remove addresses from the AutoComplete list in the To box of a new message, but the removed names still come up when I click in the Search box...
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Hans
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Re: Email Addresses retained
Nope! They were all addresses from people who sent me a message years ago; all those messages have long been deleted, and I didn't add the senders to my contacts.
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Hans
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Seems like a search index needs to be rebuilt. I have no idea how to get that done for outlook.com but I wonder if deleting the search history in the outlook.com settings would have any effect.
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I tried that too. It makes no difference - all the old addresses are still listed in Search after deleting Search History. Very frustrating...
Best wishes,
Hans
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Re: Email Addresses retained
I have sent a hopeful post to the Microsoft forum in ... hope.
Whilst I can delete unwanted addresses in the auto complete on a windows pc, I can find no way to delete in any android device. There must be a location within a programme web file (that we likely can't access) where one can trash any that are old/not valid/unwanted.
Whilst I can delete unwanted addresses in the auto complete on a windows pc, I can find no way to delete in any android device. There must be a location within a programme web file (that we likely can't access) where one can trash any that are old/not valid/unwanted.
CYa Ron
W11 pc, Android toys.
The only reason we have the 4th dimension of Time is so that everything does not happen at once.
W11 pc, Android toys.
The only reason we have the 4th dimension of Time is so that everything does not happen at once.