Re: [Geary] How does Geary get my Google contacts?

[Christian Dysthe <cdysthe gmail com>]

On July 27, 2014 9:24:11 PM Robert Schroll <rschroll gmail com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Christian Dysthe <cdysthe gmail com>
> wrote:
> > After having set up Gmail in Geary I seem to have all my Google
> > contacts available for auto-complete in the To: field.  Is Geary
> > getting the contacts directly from my Google account?
>
> Not quite.  Geary mines your messages for email addresses and uses
> those for auto-completion.  There are some heuristics to choose the
> best form of and order the contacts, so it's probably finding your
> Google contacts from the messages you've sent to and received from them.
>
> The long-term plan, as I understand it, is to interface with Gnome
> Contacts, which I think can pull contacts from Google.  Details are
> here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=714160
> Robert

Thank you for the clarification. Being able to use Gnome contacts would be 
perfect. I see you say "long term" and I assume that may mean it'll take 
quite some time for it to happen.
>

//Christian

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