How do I turn off “Collected Addresses” in Thunderbird?

Question

Can anyone help me figure out how to stop annoying Collected addresses?

Answer 1

Go to the following menu and options setting:

Tools → Options → Composition → Addressing

There you'll see a checkbox labelled:

Automatically add outgoing e-mail addresses to my:

By default this will be set to Collected Addresses and you'll need to uncheck the box, then save.

Now, everytime you email, it won't store them into the catch-all area of email addresses.