Re: [SM-USERS] Adress format at compose

[Jimmy C. <ji...@ad...>]

On Fri, May 28, 2004 7:57 am, Dwight Tovey said:
>
> Alan in Toronto said:
>>> Note that if I type a Nickname from the addressbook into the To: field,
>>> that will be expanded on send to the full address, including the name
>>> part.  It's just the addressbook popup that exhibits this problem.
>>
>> No, typing nicknames also exhibits poor behaviour, at least in SM 1.4.2.
>> If I have an address book entry of "js...@do..." with name of "John
>> Smith" and nickname of "stinky", when I type "stinky" in the To field,
>> it
>> expands to " stinky <js...@do...> ". It should, IMHO, substitute the
>> assigned name, but instead it uses the nickname and that is what the
>> recipient sees.
>>
>
> Now that is behavior that I have not seen.  I use nicknames a lot, and
> they always expand to the correct name for me (or I would be in a lot of
> trouble, considering some of the nicknames that I have given to some
> people).
>
> I'm currently using Squirrel's built in address book - no SQL or LDAP
> backend as yet (someday when I have time....).  Are you possibly using one
> of those and grabbing the wrong fields?
>
>
> Norberto Altalef wrote:
>> It's a must for me that an user can select from the addressbook and
> obtain > a complete adress (means name + email) into the to/cc/bcc
> fields.
>
> I agree that this should be fixed, but I have to ask why you "must" have
> name + email?  From a functional standpoint, most mail systems are
> perfectly happy with the email part only and ignore the name part anyway.
> The name is just visual candy for the end users.
>
> As for fixing it?  Dunno.  I wouldn't think it would be too difficult, but
> then I haven't looked into that section of the code (back to that "someday
> when I have time" thing again).  As for writing a plugin - look around the
> SquirrelMail web site.  There is some documentation on how to write
> plugins.  It should be doable without too much trouble.
>
>     /dwight


  There really is nothing to fix if you are using 1.4.2 CVS from at least
Fri Mar 26 14:33:31 2004 UTC (2 months ago).  This functionailty has
been present for along time (but with bugs) and I fixed several things
to do with it 2 months ago.  There is just presently no option to change
it.

  Try manually editting your pref file, and putting this in

addrsrch_fullname=full
or
addrsrch_fullname=nickname
or to get it back to normal (or you can just delete it)
addrsrch_fullname=noprefix

Logout of SM then log back in and try composing using an address from the
addressbook.

Hope that helps, and we should probably get an option in there sometime
after 1.4.3 is released.

Jimmy Conner