Apple Mail...how to copy JUST the email address?
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From: Ned Mantei on 27 Feb 2010 13:23 In article <270220100928031606%geo(a)sjgoiuw.com>, George <geo(a)sjgoiuw.com> wrote: > I'm using Apple Mail in Snow Leopard. Let's say you get an email from > someone and want to copy the email address. Apple makes it easy...as > you hover around the email address, an indicator that a popup menu is > available appears, and one of the items in the menu is COPY ADDRESS. > > BUT..when you copy that address, you are NOT just copying the address, > but also the bracketed name of the person or organization. So, the > result of the copy might be... > > John Smith <johnsmith(a)acme.com> > > I would like the result of the copy to be JUST the "johnsmith(a)acme.com" > part without the name and the lessthan and greaterthan symbols. > Possible? See http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20091203062729936 Regards, Ned in Zurich
From: Richard Maine on 27 Feb 2010 13:44 Tom Stiller <tom_stiller(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > I wonder why you are pasting someone else's email address in a web form? There are quite a few places where that's normal. You just bought airline tickets and want copies of the itinerary sent to friends who will be meeting you, for just one example. Things like that come up pretty often, where you legimately want copies of something sent to someone else. I most often just forward a copy of what got sent to me, but several web sites have options to send copies directly. (And, of course, there are all the "recommend us to a friend" things, some of which are just annoying, but some of which aren't.) -- Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience; email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgment. domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain
From: Tom Stiller on 27 Feb 2010 14:25 In article <1jekixi.1572h5mxklapsN%nospam(a)see.signature>, nospam(a)see.signature (Richard Maine) wrote: > Tom Stiller <tom_stiller(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > I wonder why you are pasting someone else's email address in a web form? > > There are quite a few places where that's normal. You just bought > airline tickets and want copies of the itinerary sent to friends who > will be meeting you, for just one example. Things like that come up > pretty often, where you legimately want copies of something sent to > someone else. I most often just forward a copy of what got sent to me, > but several web sites have options to send copies directly. I don't know about your friends, but it doesn't seem proper to give their email addresses away like that. Forwarding what you received seems like the right thing to do. > > (And, of course, there are all the "recommend us to a friend" things, > some of which are just annoying, but some of which aren't.) -- Tom Stiller PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF
From: dorayme on 27 Feb 2010 16:39 In article <tom_stiller-E5DF62.12513527022010(a)news.individual.net>, Tom Stiller <tom_stiller(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > In article <270220101211556149%doozy(a)earthling.net.invalid>, > Philo D <doozy(a)earthling.net.invalid> wrote: > > > In article <hmbibh$be$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, John McWilliams > > <jpmcw(a)comcast.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Maybe just a question of my curiosity, as I am usually going the other > > > way: I want to see the names of folk, but they are more like: > > > > > > Susie Que <tomatoes(a)millions.com> > > > > > > than a repeat in the name as Mr. Smith above. So why suppress the proper > > > name? > > > > When the web form asks me for email address, and I paste "Susie Que > > <tomatoes(a)millions.com>" what happens? Probably not what I want. > > I wonder why you are pasting someone else's email address in a web form? Why wonder this, have you nothing better to do? The OP's perfectly reasonable technical question has nothing to do with any particular ethical use of copy/pasting. Would the following be perfectly ethically acceptable for you (and all the other ethical wonderers that seem so numerous in this group, look at those who have responded so far, members of JORBHTTES?): Someone makes an HTML form for a client in response to an email, it needs email addresses both for the php script and the form, it would be handy to be able to simply copy/paste just the actual address from the email. Under Tiger, just the address gets copied to most text editors (unless it is in the Address book and you call for New Message in Mail and paste from the clipboard). But there is this fault in SL it seems. Editing the address seems the only option when the inappropriate rest is not wanted. There seem no preference settings that fix this. -- dorayme
From: John Varela on 27 Feb 2010 16:58
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:23:32 UTC, Ned Mantei <mantei(a)cell.biol.ethz.ch> wrote: > In article <270220100928031606%geo(a)sjgoiuw.com>, > George <geo(a)sjgoiuw.com> wrote: > > > I'm using Apple Mail in Snow Leopard. Let's say you get an email from > > someone and want to copy the email address. Apple makes it easy...as > > you hover around the email address, an indicator that a popup menu is > > available appears, and one of the items in the menu is COPY ADDRESS. > > > > BUT..when you copy that address, you are NOT just copying the address, > > but also the bracketed name of the person or organization. So, the > > result of the copy might be... > > > > John Smith <johnsmith(a)acme.com> > > > > I would like the result of the copy to be JUST the "johnsmith(a)acme.com" > > part without the name and the lessthan and greaterthan symbols. > > Possible? > > See http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20091203062729936 Neat. -- John Varela |