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I'm puzzled!!

 

Something really strange is happening (and it was in our yahoo groups also) - this is the sequence:
- a volunteer's email address is in their application/message in our group;
- that person changes her email address at some point so we copy and paste the old application into a new message, removing the old email address and replacing it with the new one;
- several months later I want to send an email to that person so?I click on her email address in the new application and a "compose email" screen opens up;
- however, rather than the new email address that I can see in the message, the old email address for her appears in the 'send to' line.

It's like?the old one seems to stay hidden underneath the new one!? ??They're not similar in any way - this is very confusing to me!! ?It doesn't happen this way with every address change, and we follow the same procedure each time. ? Any insight and/or solution would be greatly appreciated.
 

What is the name of the application?

And are you sending it from your own email? Or from your group homepage?
If you are using your own email address, perhaps there is a Previous Recipients list. There is in Apple Mail.

Frances
 

The message you received containing the original email address was hyperlinked as a mailto. If so, when you subsequently edit this text to anything else, it will still "point to" the original address.?

You will have to do one of the following:

-- Completely delete the link when you do the edit, so you don't make this mistake again, or
-- Become accustomed to not "clicking on" the hyperlink and instead cut-and-paste the revised address, or
-- Become more familiar with anchor tags.

Hope this helps,
Bruce
 

I'm using AOL desktop software and she's not in my contact list. ?I did send emails to her at the old email address but it's when I click on the hyperlink of the new address that the old one (magically!) appears.
 

When you see a link in a contact list or a message, you are seeing a link written in HTML.? This is the code used for web sites and links.? A "mail to" link has the portion that you see in your list, but there is another portion that you can't see that contains the actual email address.? So, when you edited the address, you only edited the visible portion, not the actual code of the link. In order to get the actual address, you would have to edit that html portion also.

Cacky

On 3/20/2018 5:29 PM, Nancy P via Groups.Io wrote:
I'm using AOL desktop software and she's not in my contact list. ?I did send emails to her at the old email address but it's when I click on the hyperlink of the new address that the old one (magically!) appears.
 

For example, assuming you are seeing this message in html format:?ilove@.... Click on it and see the address change.

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