We recently discovered that Gmail uses the 'primary' email of a
contact in an interesting way:

* Create a new contact group
* Add some users to the group
* In Gmail, compose a new email
* In the "To:" field, start typing the name of the group
* Select the name of the group
* The group name will be replaced with the name and *primary* email
address of each member of the group (e.g., "Charlie Wood
<[email protected]>").

But here's the rub: if none of the email addresses for a group member
has the "primary" attribute set to "true", the email address for that
member will be blank (e.g., "Charlie Wood <>").

The moral of the story is: be sure that exactly one email address is
marked as "primary" when you create or update a contact, or an
(admittedly obscure but still) important Gmail feature will break.

Regards,
Charlie


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