On Tue, 2019-09-10 at 20:19 +0200, Garret Robinson via evolution-list
wrote:
> Is there a way to disable the internet connections that are done to lookup 
> addresses from your address book?
> 
> Inputting an address into Evolution seems to cause an automatic internet 
> lookup of the address entered. There are several problems with this behavior.
> 
> 1) this is a privacy issue. I have Location Services disabled on my box, yet 
> this behavior is still going on. If my traffic is being monitored, this is 
> bad.
> 
> 2) if the address is entered in human readable form in the address book then 
> it causes Evolution to keep trying to lookup the address but failing causing 
> constant popups of the issue, for example
> 1234 Street
> Any Town, CA 90505
> 
> instead of 
> 
> 1234 Street
> Any Town
> CA
> 90505
> 
> 
> My questions specifically:
> 1) is there a way to disable map lookups from the address book? I do not want 
> Contacts and my Address Book connecting to the internet.
> 
> 2) if there is no way to disable this, where should this "bug" be filed? in 
> Evolution or in Gnome Settings "privacy"?

Can't you disable online address books in Preferences->Contacts?

poc

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