In the olden days, right clicking on the sender of an email produced a contextual menu with the option to “Copy Address”. And that’s what it did. Then you could paste happily it an email or whatever else you were working on.

Not anymore.

Now, in Snow Leopard’s Mail, when you do the same thing, it copies the person’s name as well and encloses the email address in angle brackets. Annoying.

There’s a simple fix however. Just close Mail and open Terminal in /Applications/Utilities, then type in the following line in Terminal. Reopen Mail and you’re good to go!

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defaults write com.apple.mail AddressesIncludeNameOnPasteboard -bool NO

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