Re: [Evolution] Another Feature

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj helixcode com>]

I believe that the request was to figure out what the address was even
when you didn't have the address in your addressbook, this is basically
impossible to do. I mean, all you can do is make a guess but you have to
admit from both a programming perspective AND a user persepective, it's
not worth the effort to have to keep connecting to the SMTP server to
VRFY each address you type in as you type it, that's just a total waste
of bandwidth/effort.

Maybe I'm missing something, but unless that's the case this feature
would be a complete waste of effort. I'm not sure how Netscape does it,
but my guess is that it bases the address on what's in the addressbook.

Am I wrong?

Jeff


> It would be much more 'comforting' if it showed it to you,
> though.  Like Netscape does..
>
> Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > actually, that's taken care of by the SMTP provider. If you try to send to
> > daria, it'll append the domain of the smtp server.
> >
> > so if you use helixcode.com's smtp server, sending to daria would try to
> > send to daria helixcode com
> > now, it'd fail but that's because daria helixcode com doesn't exist ;-)
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Aaron Weber wrote:
> > > Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:35:25 -0400
> > > From: Aaron Weber <aaron helixcode com>
> > > Subject: [Evolution] Another Feature
> > >
> > > Another feature for you:
> > >
> > > Feature: Default domain for unqualified addresses.
> > >
> > > Description: Evolution will append @helixcode.com or whatever you want,
> > > to any unqualified address that isn't already a nickname listed in the
> > > Contact manager.  i.e. I type in "daria" and if I don't have a "daria"
> > > in my contact manager (say, daria mtv com), it'll send it to
> > > daria helixcode com 
> > >
> > > a.
> > --
> > We are Spruce of Borg. You will be assimilated. Using MS Outlook Express is
> > futile.
> >
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