Here’s a simple solution to an irritating problem: if you copy an email address in Mail by right-clicking it and selecting Copy Address, you’ll probably find that not only do you get the email address, but you also copy the person’s name—hit Paste, and you’ll see something like KeirThomas<keir@example.com>.
The solution for pasting just the email address (that is, simply keir@example.com) is to activate a secret setting, as follows, that will cause only the email address to be copied and pasted.
Quit Mail, open a Terminal window (open Finder, select the Applications list, and then in the list of applications double-click Terminal within the Utilities folder), and type the following:
The solution for pasting just the email address (that is, simply keir@example.com) is to activate a secret setting, as follows, that will cause only the email address to be copied and pasted.
Quit Mail, open a Terminal window (open Finder, select the Applications list, and then in the list of applications double-click Terminal within the Utilities folder), and type the following:
defaults write com.apple.mail AddressesIncludeNameOnPasteboard -bool false
When you open Mail again, you should find that email addresses copy in their more useful, stripped-down format.
To revert to the default settings, again close Mail, open a Terminal window, and type the following:
defaults delete com.apple.mail AddressesIncludeNameOnPasteboard
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