Mail app: How to remove email addresses from Favorites list

[Guest Jasonsm_home]

While trying to help someone understand the different manifestations of "users/contacts" between mail, phone contacts, Skype, etc., I managed to inadvertently add some accounts to my Favorites in the Mail App and do not see a means to manage that list.

 

 

Repro:

 

1. Mail configured to connect to Hotmail

 

2. In left pane of Mail App, select People. Flyout with 'Favorites' and 'Frequent' overlays on top of the inbox view of messages.

 

3. Magic happens here...I do something that I cannot recall or repro...vague recollection is that I clicked on a couple of the accounts for friends from the 'Frequent' list and they end up in the Favorites list

 

4. There is no obvious way to remove users from the Favorites list.

 

 

Going to the People app, all of the users in my Mail app's Favorites list do *not* have the Favorites icon lit up. Selecting and De-selecting the Favorite icon in the People app does nothing to my list of 'Favorites' in the Mail app. What notion of contacts is this app synching to???

 

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