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#143 Improvement suggestion for using multiple email addresses

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2005-05-23
2005-05-23
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It would be nice to store the different email addresses for a person under the same entry and be able to choose which address to use when typing the person's name into the To: box (e.g. work or personal). At the moment if both addesses are stored under the same "person" entry then only the first email address is visible when typing the person's name.

Although you can copy and paste a person's other email address from the address book, it is not as convenient as having it available while typing in the To: box.

The other alternative is knowing the other email address to type it in.

Unfortunately, some people's email addresses bear no resemblance to their names and that means it isn't easy to know what to type - unless you can remember all of a person's email addresses. Which defeats the point of having an address book. I mean what's the point of having the address book if you have to remember all the addresses anyway?

When SM sees a person's name with more than one email address stored, it should pop up a little multi list where the user can choose (using either kbd or mouse)
which email address to use.

The only alternative at the moment is to store each address for a person as a separate entry in the address book (e.g. Bob Work, Bob home). This clutters
up the address book and you also have to repeat/update other details (like postal address etc) for each entry which can lead to out of date info or can lead to lost data if you delete the only entry with that data in it.

Kulwant

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