Re: [Evolution] Contact List

[Jerry Criswell <jcriswell58 gmail com>]

I should have mentioned the version; I know better.  Sorry.  You are correct, it is 3.2.3 according to Help/About.

Followed your directions for the address book.  Under properties my personal address book IS checked as default.

Here are my exact steps:

Start Evolution.  Click the New email button.  Click the To: button.  The Show Contacts window opens.  The Address Book line is blank.  Click the drop down and select Personal (the one that is marked as default).  The below Contacts box fills with email addresses (only).

I don't know what else to add except that this Contact file was imported from Outlook, probably as a CSV file.  Been a while, not sure.  I'll let you know anything else you need to know.

--

JC

-----Original Message-----
From: Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>
To: Jerry Criswell <jcriswell58 gmail com>
Cc: evolution-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [Evolution] Contact List
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:40:43 +0100

Hi Jerry,

please always mention your version. As per your email header I assume
that you run "Evolution 3.2.3-0ubuntu6".

On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 12:26 -0600, Jerry Criswell wrote:
> I have a couple questions.  When you start to write an email and click
> the To: button to select receivers, The first thing you notice is the
> address book line is blank.  I understand you can have more than one
> address book, but when you only have one, is there some way to set it
> as default?

Go to the address book view of Evolution, right-click on an address book
in the left pane, click "Properties" and set "Mark as default address
book".

> Also the contacts list that is displayed only shows the email address.
> We all know that many times an email address has no resemblance to the
> person which it is for.  Is there some way to make this list show
> names instead of email?

I cannot reproduce that problem. I see full names here.
Which address book type is that about? 
Local? Something online/remote? If so, what?

andre