Re: XCmail: Addressbooks - adding to the discussion.

[Jürgen Schmitz]

Well, the idea of the automatic book is to make live easier - automatic. 
For example if I receive emails from a customer I don't want to add him to 
my addressbook but sometimes I need to write him some days later when I 
already removed his mail or it was moved to the received folder.

So in this case I always have to press a button to add this address - which 
I won't do.

However, the automatic book can be disabled in the general prefs. Maybe a 
feature should be added to remove old entries or not ofter used addresses 
from the automatic book. But that's not that easy.

Different books a all is a problem - the object design is not made for this 
and so would require a big change in the whole program (or all parts where 
an addressbook is used).


Jürgen

David Pilgram wrote:

> 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.
>