How do I get Mail (Tiger 10.4.10, Mail 2.1.2) to 'reload' addresses and names in display columns?

Jim Witte jswitte at bloomington.in.us
Thu Apr 10 09:26:23 PDT 2008


Hi,

   How do I get Mail to reload the names of people I've added to the  
address book?  I'll have a message which just shows the bare name,  
then I'll add it to the address book, open it (it would be nice if  
there were an "Add and Open" option - time to write a CMM extension),  
and then quite AB.  Sometimes, the new name will display (I think  
always when NEW mail is comes in).  But that still leaves the old  
mail that's already there.  Doing a Rebuild command on the mailbox  
doesn't help.  Can I 'vacuum' the SQLite database that Mail uses to  
force it to rebuild them like you can with subjects to speed up  
searching (and clean out crud and reduce the DB size?  If so, is  
there a tutorial somewhere that gives the commands to put intio  
SQLite?  Or is this all fixed in Leopard? (meaning, "upgrade, you  
schmuck (overlooking the not-so-seemly original Yiddish  
definition) !" :)

Thanks,
Jim


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