Re: [Evolution] Another Feature

[JP Rosevear <jpr arcavia com>]

Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> 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.

It guesses based on the domain name of the user's email address.

-JP
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