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  <title type="text">Not So Smart Contacts</title>
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Not So Smart Contacts]]></title>
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      <name>Rick Churchill</name>
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      <xhtml:div xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">I am having problems with Smart Contacts. I use the company line directly under the name fields to add societies such as WAMUG/VINE/GP where I wish to send out bulk emails. So for example I make a Smart Contact list GP CHALLENGE with "Companies &gt; contains &gt; GP" for my F1 Fantasy league.<xhtml:br/>
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Where there are contacts that have more than one email address I seem to get multiple entries when I put in GP CHALLENGE in my email To: line.<xhtml:br/>
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I also get old players that in some cases have died (which is very awkward if I don't spot them). These are addresses no longer in my Contacts and which have been removed from Previous Recipients.<xhtml:br/>
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This is very odd and am unable to narrow down the instances</xhtml:div>
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Not So Smart Contacts]]></title>
    <updated>2024-02-27T22:55:59+00:00</updated>
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      <name>Tony Still</name>
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      <xhtml:div xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The multiple entries in the email To: line just sounds like that's the way it works with Mail: on another day someone might complain that some addresses get omitted.<xhtml:br/>
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The old entries is more of a mystery. As a wild guess, have you at some point had Contacts working locally and later moved to keeping its data on iCloud? I wonder if there could be an extra, old copy of your Contacts (that you can't see) which the smart list is also scanning.<xhtml:br/>
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I *think* it's safe to switch Contacts to work locally (ie not on iCloud) so you could then inspect a copy of what should be a snapshot from iCloud but might have some extras. Don't edit anything except delete unwanted entries, then turn on iCloud again and you should resync safely. Bit of a long-shot I'm afraid.</xhtml:div>
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