XCmail: Addressbooks - adding to the discussion.

[David Pilgram]

Dear Jürgen,

At the moment there appears to be a private and an automatic addressbook
for xcmail.  Personally, I'm not convinced by the automatic one, it
contains errors (e.g. when I mis-typed an email address, it turns up in
there), and sometimes parses addresses incorrectly.  

I said in an earlier thread that instead of an automatic book, there
should be the choice to add the new address into the existing book(s). 
But that this feature is, itself, optional (just like the automatic book
is now).

              ----No:  Do nothing.
             |
Automatic ---|                                   ---No:  Do nothing
 Entries     |                                  |
             ____Yes: ---On new email address---|
                         Add to addressbook     |
                                                | ---Yes: Add to [selected]
                                                          addressbook.

Hope that explains what I mean.

BUT still have more than one addressbook, e.g. Personal and Work, which is
why I put in [selected] in the tree above.

Some people may want an addressbook that they can then email between say
work and home, and keep updated; make *one* of those available to do so. 

I'm reasonably happy with the way that I made two accounts share
addressbooks, but it's not perfect, and occasionally an update is
over-written by and older version when the other account closes down.  A
small drawback to a much larger advantage.  But the email-able version may
also be able to be used in this guise as well.

Regards,

David Pilgram.