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Have you ever noticed how, in Apple’s Mail program, when you start typing in an address it will try to guess which address you want, based on the first couple of letters you type? It’s a very handy feature. I can just start typing “mom…” and it pops up with the rest of my mother’s e-mail address. Fantastic! (She wishes I’d type that a little more often, but that’s another story.)

But sometimes it brings up an address that doesn’t work or is incomplete. So when you hit send you get an error message. Or worse, it just silently disappears into the ether.

So how can you get Mail to stop remembering addresses that are wrong? We’ll be going into exactly that in this post.
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On the show yesterday, we had a question about being able to send mail from the iPhone. There have been reports of folks who can retrieve their mail just fine, but cannot always send it.

As it turns out, this is a similar problem that laptop users have when they travel around. To reduce the amount of spam that gets sent through their networks, your mail provider or your internet service provider (or both if they’re different) probably have restrictions on how and when they’ll accept mail from you to be delivered to someone else.

In this article, we’ll talk about what’s happening here and what you can do to work around this.
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