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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Request for comments: New address book API
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <ingo.kloecker () epost ! de>
Date:       2001-10-17 21:27:38
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On Wednesday 17 October 2001 01:55, Don Sanders wrote:
> Allowing multiple email addresses for each person is more of
> a gimmick than a truely useful feature.

No, it's not just a gimmick. Almost all my friends have at least two 
separate email addresses. One for their working place and one for their 
home. Now if I put all my friends in a distribution list how can I make 
sure that they all receive the message at their home address. Making 
two addressbook entries for each of them just because I'd like to reach 
them sometimes under their work address and sometimes under their home 
address would be really stupid. Supporting multiple email addresses is 
imperative.
I know that my idea might lead to inconsistencies if email addresses are 
changed but using categories isn't an option either. I'm afraid that 
unfortunately there isn't a satisfying solution for this problem. Maybe 
it would be best to make distribution lists a KMail only solution. And 
each time something is changed in the addressbook we should check for 
changed email addresses and should ask the user to resolve any 
conflicts.

> Custom entries aren't possible in the old or new
> addressbook. I plan to fake them by in KAddressbook by
> showing an entry for each category.

Hmm, wasn't it possible in KAddressbook to define arbitrary key/value 
pairs? Adding arbitrary key/value pairs to the addressbook should be 
possible because one can never now which information should later be 
stored in the addressbook. As I already said, I'd like to store a 
person's PGP keys (resp. the key IDs of those keys) in the address 
book. And certainly some other apps also would like to add some 
additionally information. Think about ICQ numbers, AIM nicks, etc.

Regards,
Ingo
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