Mac OS X Mail.app - how to prevent addresses being automatically added to Address Book

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Published on 2010-04-08T09:36:53Z Indexed on 2010/04/08 15:43 UTC
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Is there any way to disable the feature where Mail.app on OS X 10.6 will automatically add addresses into the address book when replying to an email from someone not in your address book already?

I have looked through the settings and tried to find ways around this on Google but nothing has come up, so I thought it best to ask the genius pool.

Cheers!

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