Re: [Evolution] How to get new addresses automatically added to "contacts"

["Sankar P" <psankar novell com>]

On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 11:56 -0400, Dinbandhu wrote:
> As a point of clarification: will your patch add all new addresses
> that
> come in the in-box? 

My patch will not add all addresses that comes in the Inbox. My patch is
to add all the addresses to which you *send* a mail. 
> 
> It does seem like a reasonable point made by Art Alexion, that one
> would
> not want to have spammers' etc e-mail addresses added. Please clarify
> how your patch would work.
> 
> I would think that it may make sense to require some proactive action
> on
> the part of the user to indicate interest in the address: for example,
> if the user click's on "reply" to a mail then that is an obvious sign
> of
> interest in the address. Yet also, I would add that if one initiates a
> correspondence by typing the address, i.e. if one is the first writer
> of
> a letter-- then too, the address should be added (if it is new).
> 
> Does anyone know the exact way that Thunderbird's auto address feature
> works in this regard? Does it add ALL new e-mail addresses that arrive
> in the in-box? Or if not, then what are the criteria for automatically
> adding an address in TB?
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Sankar P
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