By Richard Mallion
I quite often need to copy and paste someones email address from an email inside Apple Mail. If you do this by right-clicking on someones email address like richardm@amsys.co.uk and copy it, then paste it into another application it will show up as “Richard Mallion <richardm@amsys.co.uk “, which can be fairly annoying if you just want the email address.
Help is at hand with the terminal. You can change this behaviour so only the email address is copied.
To do this, launch Terminal and paste this line into the command line:
defaults write com.apple.mail AddressesIncludeNameOnPasteboard -bool false
Then relaunch Mail app for changes to take effect.
Thank youuuuu!
Holy Cow, that was driving me crazy.
Oh Lord, THANK YOU!
Thank you!
D.
Excellent tip! This had been frustrating me for a long time. Thanks!
You need to hit return after pasting the line in Terminal.
Awesome tip