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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    [kdepim-users] Re: KMail e-mail address autocompletion
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-11-04 23:27:44
Message-ID: 200411050027.45979 () erwin ! ingo-kloecker ! de
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On Thursday 04 November 2004 15:30, Derek Broughton wrote:
> On Thursday 04 November 2004 09:10, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > the e-mail address autocompletion feature in KMail 1.7 from KDE
> > 3.3.1 seems to search from the beginning of a string that consists
> > of one or more of:
> >
> > Firstname Surname <email@address>
> >
> > This makes it impossible to use auto completion with the surname or
> > the e-mail adress (unless only the e-mail address is stored in auto
> > completion, for example for recently used e-mail adresses).
> >
> > IMHO KMail should search in firstname, surname and email address.

I completely agree, but due to limitations in the auto-completion 
functionality in the KDE libraries that's not easy to change.

> > Our customer just wants auto completion with surname instead of
> > firstname.

I think this was recently implemented in KMail by simply duplicating the 
entries in the auto-completion list, i.e. by adding
Firstname Surname <email@address>
and
Surname, Firstname <email@address>

But for some reason it doesn't work in the development version. Maybe it 
hasn't been committed yet.

> I agree.  The only address I seem to notice this with is mine.  When
> I want to forward an email to myself at my client's site, I have to
> type a "D" (for derek) even though the address is broughtond@... 
> It's unintuitive, since all of my personal addresses begin with "d"
> but the client addresses begin with my surname.

For your information, you can simply press Ctrl+T to get all addresses 
which contain the already entered characters anywhere, e.g. type 'brou' 
and then press Ctrl+T to get your address.

Regards,
Ingo

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