[Kolab-devel] distributionlists testing

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Friday 25 April 2008 09:58, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> > 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.

This sounds about right. The mentioned drawbacks probably were one reason
to come up with something more simple using the primary email address.

> 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...

I have'nt checked the implementation, but I guess that Kontact
will do the "primary email address" (PEA) as reference into the known
PEAs. 

Bernhard


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