[Kolab-devel] distributionlists testing

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de> writes:

> 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. 

I have the same impression from looking at the code. It also seems to
create new entries if the email in the distribution list does not
exist in the address book yet.

Cheers,

Gunnar

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