Re: problem with kaddressbook

[Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>]

Mid-air collision!

On 09/04/2009 08:32:16 PM Fri, Jack wrote:
> 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...
>
> Success.  It works as advertised.  For the two who showed up before, it  
> (correctly?) shows both emails on the list.  (I prefer it shows both,  
> although one interpretation could be to chose the one with the PREF, but  
> I think that's overkill.)
>
> Thanks.
>
> Since this probably won't get rolled out until the next version, I'll  
> probably submit a Gentoo bug report with your patch, unless there is any  
> reason not to do so.

Glad it helped.  Yes, Balsa should really look at the type, and find a way  
to present the "TYPE=PREF" one as preferred, but that would take some  
*real* work :)

As I mentioned in the other reply, feel free to submit any bug that would  
speed up fixing the issue.

Thanks for reporting the problem!

Peter