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

["Sankar P" <psankar novell com>]

On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 11:06 -0400, Dinbandhu wrote:
> One question: is it that the Automatic Contacts will only add a new
> address if you are clicking on "reply" to THEIR letter? Or if you
> write
> an e-mail to someone to whom you haven't written before, and you type
> their address into the "To" window of a mail, then in that case would
> Evo add that address into Contacts? Or does it only happen when you
> actually click on "reply" to someone's letter?
>
> I would hope that it is not restricted to when you click "reply". If
> you
> type a new e-mail address into the "To" window of a mail, then the
> same
> auto entry ought to occur in Contacts as if you had clicked on
> "reply".

The current behavior is it will add only when you reply. (and you don't
have to send the reply). this isn't highly-useful. I have a patch that
changes this behavior and adds any new address. I will be committing it
soon (after some testing).

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Sankar P
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