| Summary: | add a search for contacts | ||
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| Product: | Claws Mail (GTK 2) | Reporter: | ochosi |
| Component: | UI/Address Book | Assignee: | users |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | CC: | exsudat |
| Priority: | P3 | ||
| Version: | 3.7.1 | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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Description
ochosi
2009-05-18 13:24:47 UTC
This is also something I really want: some way to search the address book. Use case: I'm trying to send email to my father, but I can't remember his email address. I just switched to claws-mail last month, and automatically harvested all of the email addresses from over 5 years worth of email. Today I'm composing an email, then click to open the address book, but there's no 'search' button. I have no way to find his address in the 20 or so address book folders that were created during the automatic harvest process. Help? Er, I mean, *feature request*! :-) If LDAP doesn't scare you you could import all your addresses into LDAP. The LDAP address book has this nifty feature: Match names containing search term. Combine that with TAB completion in the address fields in the message compose window and your are almost done. That's a feature i would use more often, too. Especially since i use keywords (as comments) heavily, to remember what the addresses are for (there are way too many to remember by mind). Sometimes i need to find addresses where i only know the keyword. So, i really second that feature request. (I would be ok with a search for keywords 'anywhere' in the adress, name, or comment.) iirc someone in #claws said that the addressbook codebase is in a very bad state and would have to be rewritten from scratch, but since it's none of the devs itches, nobody considers doing it. (seems that for many people the tab-completion in the compose window is sufficient.) unfortunately i'm no good at coding, but maybe it's time for a community initiative? Lack of a search feature for the address book is the main limitation of Claws Mail. The aliases also do not work optimally. If an alias is created, it should supersede other autocomplete listings. Changes related to this bug have been committed. Please check latest Git and update the bug accordingly. You can also get the patch from: http://git.claws-mail.org/ ++ ChangeLog 2015-12-05 00:40:02.237158556 +0100 http://git.claws-mail.org/?p=claws.git;a=commitdiff;h=a4c9d19459ecf1afaa1c314849c25fe2ef8d393c Merge: c828ba6 ade3676 Author: Colin Leroy <colin@colino.net> Date: Sat Dec 5 00:40:01 2015 +0100 Merge branch 'master' of file:///home/git/claws http://git.claws-mail.org/?p=claws.git;a=commitdiff;h=ade36765043da35dfac36ba905ff1b40efd88ead Author: Charles Lehner <charles@claws-mail.org> Date: Fri Dec 4 17:51:16 2015 -0500 Fix bug #1918: allow searching of local address books Based on code in Sylpheed by Hiroyuki from 2009-11-26 Fixed 2 years ago... "If an alias is created, it should supersede other autocomplete listings" does not appear to be fixed. |