On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 09:14 -0600, Sankar P wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 11:06 -0400, Dinbandhu wrote: > > One question: is it that the Automatic Contacts will only add a new > > address if you are clicking on "reply" to THEIR letter? Or if you > > write > > an e-mail to someone to whom you haven't written before, and you type > > their address into the "To" window of a mail, then in that case would > > Evo add that address into Contacts? Or does it only happen when you > > actually click on "reply" to someone's letter? > > > > I would hope that it is not restricted to when you click "reply". If > > you > > type a new e-mail address into the "To" window of a mail, then the > > same > > auto entry ought to occur in Contacts as if you had clicked on > > "reply". > > The current behavior is it will add only when you reply. (and you don't > have to send the reply). this isn't highly-useful. I have a patch that > changes this behavior and adds any new address. I will be committing it > soon (after some testing).
As a point of clarification: will your patch add all new addresses that come in the in-box? It does seem like a reasonable point made by Art Alexion, that one would not want to have spammers' etc e-mail addresses added. Please clarify how your patch would work. I would think that it may make sense to require some proactive action on the part of the user to indicate interest in the address: for example, if the user click's on "reply" to a mail then that is an obvious sign of interest in the address. Yet also, I would add that if one initiates a correspondence by typing the address, i.e. if one is the first writer of a letter-- then too, the address should be added (if it is new). Does anyone know the exact way that Thunderbird's auto address feature works in this regard? Does it add ALL new e-mail addresses that arrive in the in-box? Or if not, then what are the criteria for automatically adding an address in TB? Swarup _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
