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Stop Pasting Full Names When Copying an Email Address in Mac OS X Mail


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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/apple-mail-icon.jpeg" alt="Apple mail icon" title="apple-mail-icon" width="140" height="140" class="alignright size-full wp-image-29866" /> Ever noticed that when you copy an email address from OS X Mail app and paste it elsewhere that you get the addressees full name as well as their email address? Try it yourself by right-clicking on someones email address like someonesname@domain.com and copy it, then paste it elsewhere and it will show up as “Someones Name <someonesname@domain.com>“, which can be fairly annoying if you just want an address.</p>

<p>To resolve this copy/paste annoyance, launch Terminal and paste this line into the command line:</p>

<p><code>defaults write com.apple.mail AddressesIncludeNameOnPasteboard -bool false</code></p>

<p>Relaunch Mail app for changes to take effect, then try to copy and paste an address. Only the email address should go to the clipboard now.</p>

<p><em>Thanks to Randy M for the tip</em></p>

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