[Kolab-devel] distributionlists testing

[Mike Gabriel]

hi gunnar,

> [...]

thanks for your thoughts on this!!!

> Reading through your descriptions here enforces the impression I had
> above: distribution lists as a list of e-mail addresses and a group of
> uids are fundamentally different things. And I think both do not mix
> very well together.
>
> We should really clarify first how the other clients model this at the
> moment. Are the entries in distribution lists linked to real contacts
> in the same folder or not?

in outlook (native, but also with the scalix connector and a scalix  
groupware as exchange server application) there is only one type of  
distribution list and in this list you can put either smtp-address /  
display-name items or references to contact objects in (i am not sure  
at this point) any available .pst-style-like address book. the contact  
object references in outlook are nasty. whenever you export a  
distribution list that contains references to contact objects, all the  
references are lost, only the plain smtp-address / display-name items  
in the distlist persist.

about kontact/kmail, i am not so sure, but recalling the last test  
usage, it seemed that kontact stored smtp-address / display-name itmes  
only, but maybe there are other folks on the list with deeper insight...

gruezi,
mike

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