I would like to specify for a contact which email address should be used 
when the contact is emailed NOT via a group.

(Original post at 
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=366fa8b0e261675b)

--- SCENARIO ---

Here's an example. For my friend Roberta Mate who has three email addresses 
below;
1. [email protected]
2. [email protected]
3. [email protected]

In my contacts page for Roberta Mate the email addresses are listed in the 
order above.
Also, my preferred email address for her is 1. [email protected].
For your information, the other email addresses are her previous emails she 
used to use. I keep them on her contacts page so that I can keep track of my 
conversations with her (View Recent Conversations).

Yet, when I compose an email and start typing 'Roberta Mate' it is the 2nd 
option that is highlighted and not the first (as I had assumed it should 
do). Also the email order of the drop-down list (2,3,1) does not match the 
order of the email address in her contact page.
I have to use the down arrow to select my preferred email address (every 
time I compose an email for her).

--- WHAT I WOULD LIKE ---

I would like the ability to specify an email address for a contact who has 
multiple email addresses.
Not for a group. For sending to the contact individually.

I would like to visit the contacts page and use a drop-down arrow (which 
doesn't exist yet) next to the 'My Contacts' group-label and choose one 
email address as the default. It doesn't even have to be the first listed 
email address. It could be the second or third email address listed.

I would like the next time composing an email and typing that contacts name 
to have the chosen email address for 'My Contacts' to be the email address 
offered, highlighted, inserted, typed, entered (choose your method of 
operation).

This functionality already exists for Google Contacts and 
other-group-labels.
Please also allow this functionality for the core 'My Contacts' group-label.



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