On 11 June 2010 15:53, Francis J. Lacoste <[email protected]> wrote: > Can somebody explain me this address book crap? > > Is it that some some address book software harvest emails automatically? For > example, if I have Graham Binns in my address book and there is another Graham > Binns emailing me with a different address, it will at some point > automatically add that different email to the record? > > Am I the only one thinking such behavior is broken, or at least not thought > through properly. I can see that being useful in some cases, but annoying in a > lot of others.
Some MUAs (Gmail, Thunderbird, Mail.app, etc.) will automatically add an address to your addressbook whenever you email that address for the first time. If I look in my Gmail addressbook, for example, I can see several Bug $foos in there, because the Reply-to address for all bug mail is "Bug $foo <[email protected]>". We're not proposing to change the Reply-to header, however, so we're not going to end up with "Graham Binns <[email protected]>" entries in peoples' address books (unless their MUA is very broken, and I'm inclined to not worry too much about such an edge case). The problem of the bug email addresses going in there is something you can do nothing about. This functionality can be turned of in most cases, by the way. Or you can use Mutt, where it's never turned on in the first place. But remember, all mail clients suck; it's a basic specification of the application genre. -- Graham Binns | PGP Key: EC66FA7D _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
