Re: XCmail: Addressbook

[David Pilgram]

Of course I was pressing Return after changing an entry!  I made sure that
the entry in the upper half of the addressbook window had really changed. 
I even closed the addressbook, then re-opened it several times, so as to
save the work up to that point.

Its just that it is not saved to disc.  Even closing the addressbook and
re-opening it does not do the trick.  If you quit XCmail, then start it
again, you get back to the unedited addressbook.  In other words, it looks
as if the addressbook is only written to disc when XCmail closes down.


Problem is seemingly resolved however.  Owner was wrong, for some reason.

So that leads to another question:  If the user was user1,  but the
addressbook owner was user2, how come XCmail could read it?

Normally if the owner is wrong, it simply overwrites it with a new, blank
one.  That is similar to the problem in sharing addressbooks I experienced
when I was trying this sort of thing.  So if I can find how I can read the 
addressbook with a different owner I am half way there - and I have such an 
addressbook.  I can even edit it permanantly (by "chmod 666 addressbook" first).

So what I have is an addressbook with owner user2, which can be read by
user1 using XCmail.  But if I copy an addressbook of user3 across (having
saved the addressbook as something else first!), XCmail of user1 will not
read it, and will overwrite it with the default.  There should not be any
administrative link between user1, user2 and user3. 

One clue may be the automatic addressbook, and sharing common entries;
user3's addressbook should not have had any common entries (but there may
have been one or two).

There is something very deep here.....

Regards,

David Pilgram.