Re: [Evolution] Automatically creating contacts from received email?

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 10:49, Brian Button wrote:
> I've search bugzilla and the ximian site to see if this is possible, but
> I've found nothing.
>
> I'd like to have Evo automatically create new contacts for senders and
> other recipients of emails that I get. Is this possible with the way Evo
> is now, or is it being planned for the future? If not, I suppose I could
> write it... :)

pretty sure this is already filed in bugzilla, but I'm unaware of what
the timeline is for that feature. It should be listed under the mailer
component I think, if I'm not mis-remembering. Might be marked as
Future?

Anyways, it's not possible with evolution 1.2 (but I'm sure you gathered
that already). If you'd like to take a stab at it, go for it.
Unfortunately I'm not sure where you should begin tho.

I think there is some code in the mailer that handles right-clicking on
email address links in the preview pane, which pops up a little dialog
asking the user if he/she wants to add the contact. You'll probably want
to just skip the prompt I guess? Since there is already the right-click
method, there will be some overlap between it and the feature you want -
so there will probably need to be a checkbox option to auto-collect
addresses or not. Eithr that, or perhaps th auto-collect would collect
the addresses into a separate Addressbook? I think that's what Outlook
Express does (What Would Outlook Do?).

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
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