Re: problem with kaddressbook

[Jack <ostroffjh sbcglobal net>]

On 2009.09.04 18:29, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> Hi Jack!
>
> On 09/03/2009 04:11:54 PM Thu, Jack wrote:
> > I've pointed Balsa to my kaddressbook std.vcf file.  When I open the  
> > file through one of the KDE apps, I see dozens of entries.  When I  
> > open the address book in Balsa, I only see three names.  I finally  
> > tracked it down that Balsa only shows those names with a  
> > EMAIL;TYPE=PREF:name host line.  Most of my entries have only an  
> > EMAIL:name host   The PREF is only there for names that have two  
> > email addresses.
> >
> > Should Balsa show names with only a single EMAIL entry, or was this  
> > a problem when kaddressbook imported the original vcards, which were  
> > originally exported from Outlook?
> >
> > Is my best fix just to manually add ";TYPE=PREF" to the other EMAIL  
> > lines?
>
> It looks like a bug in Balsa's vCard address book code.  It looks for:
>
> EMAIL;.*:name host
>
> evidently based on the assumption that all EMAIL lines have  
> ";TYPE=...:" qualifiers.  I can't find any authority that requires  
> them, and RFC-242[56] [1] makes it clear that they are optional, with  
> TYPE=INTERNET as the default, so perhaps Balsa should be more  
> permissive--patch attached.
>
> Best,
>
> Peter
>
> [1] <URL:http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2426.html> "defines the profile  
> of the MIME Content-Type [MIME-DIR] for directory information for a  
> white-pages person object, based on a vCard electronic business  
> card.", which doesn't define what an address book should contain, but  
> may be as close to a definition as we'll find...

Peter,

Thanks.  I agree that just dropping the semi-colon from the match  
should work.  It may take me a bit of time to figure out how to apply  
the patch within the gentoo build framework, but I know I'll get it  
eventually, and I'll let you know how it works.

Should this be formally filed as a bug anywhere?

Jack