Copying email address in Snow Leopard
Prior to Snow Leopard, in the Mail application you could right click on an email address, select Copy Address from the contextual menu, and it would copy the email address. In Snow Leopard this has changed. Instead of copying the email address, it copies the formatted email address which is of the form: Displayed Name <actual email address>.
If you just want the email address, you have to do some editing after you copy. Or you can set up Snow Leopard so that it reverts to the old behavior and it only copies the email address, not all of the formatted information too.
To do this, open the Terminal app and run this command:
After you run this command, you need to quit and restart Mail. But once you do, the Copy Address command will be returned to its former self where it just copies the email address.
If you want to change the behavior back so that it copies the formatted email address, you can run the command again and change the NO to YES.
If you just want the email address, you have to do some editing after you copy. Or you can set up Snow Leopard so that it reverts to the old behavior and it only copies the email address, not all of the formatted information too.
To do this, open the Terminal app and run this command:
defaults write com.apple.mail AddressesIncludeNameOnPasteboard -bool NO
After you run this command, you need to quit and restart Mail. But once you do, the Copy Address command will be returned to its former self where it just copies the email address.
If you want to change the behavior back so that it copies the formatted email address, you can run the command again and change the NO to YES.
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