Earlier this week I wrote about how Mail.app in Snow Leopard changed the way e-mail addresses would be copied to your clipboard, when you right click on a “From” name on an e-mail, to copy their e-mail address. The way it used to work, like in Leopard, was that it simply copied the e-mail address, [email protected]. But in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, it would copy the name too, like this: John Doe <[email protected]>.
The new method is really annoying to those of us who copies e-mail addresses a lot, like when we need to do a lookup in a database for user accounts or similar stuff, you’d then have to doctor the pasted text string to remove name, “<” and “>”.
The Solution
Thanks to Mac Daddy World, I now found a solution to this problem. As I suspected, there would be a simple terminal command to execute that’ll make it all go away, back to the way Leopard Mail used to do it.
Here’s what you do: Quit Mail then launch Terminal (find it in Spotlight if you don’t know how to get there). Now simply copy and paste the following piece of code into Terminal on a single line and hit enter:
defaults write com.apple.mail AddressesIncludeNameOnPasteboard -bool NO
To undo, simply change “NO” to “YES” in the above code and run it again.
Yay, me too!
Thanks for this. This is one thing that really bugged me with Snow Leopard.
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Exactly – bugged the h**** out of me too 🙂 I’m glad to finally have it fixed.
Thank you! This was annoying me far too much, I finally had to search for a fix and yours works great!
Yes yes YES!!! Thank you!!! Ever since I found my MBP being force-upgraded following an unanticipated, unrequested logic board upgrade, I’ve been gnashing my teeth over this. This worked perfectly – thank you *so* much!
Anne
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! This has been driving me absolutely crazy! I just don’t understand why this would be something you’d want by default.
You have saved me many a delete.
elaine .
I’m glad you found the tip useful, Elaine 🙂