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Delete collected E-Mail Adresses

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I use Thunderbird on my iMac Sonoma 14.6 with the M1-Chip I mistyped an adress while writing an E-Mail and sent the Mail. Returned realized the Mistake and corrected the adress. ›ow, every time I want to write a Mail to the recepient I am offered both adresses. I Allready deleted the wrong spelling from my Contacts-App, but still ... I tried "search adress", but there I do find only the correct one.

What can I do to delete the adress I don't want to confuse me any longer? Thank you for your help!

I use Thunderbird on my iMac Sonoma 14.6 with the M1-Chip I mistyped an adress while writing an E-Mail and sent the Mail. Returned realized the Mistake and corrected the adress. ›ow, every time I want to write a Mail to the recepient I am offered both adresses. I Allready deleted the wrong spelling from my Contacts-App, but still ... I tried "search adress", but there I do find only the correct one. What can I do to delete the adress I don't want to confuse me any longer? Thank you for your help!

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Check settings>composition and see if you have the box checked to save outgoing messages. If so, then click to addressbook, click to the collected addressbook, and delete the incorrect address.

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Sorry, but I do find only one address in all addressbooks (The correct one). Nevertheless I get two to choose from when i write the beginning of the address in an E-Mail ...

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You didn't respond about collecting addresses. Is that set?

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yes, that is set!

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The I am surprised that the incorrect address is not in the Collected Addresses addressbook. That's the one usually listed at bottom of addressbooks.

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I checked both "all Addresses" and "collected Addresses", but no, only the correct one ...

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