Hi Thomas, it looks very cool!
- When composing a message, groups are also included in the
find-as-you-type query and will be simply expanded when selecting them. This is the GMail way and has the advantage, that one can still remove one or the other recipient. The disadvantage of this behavior is that the recipients field will be cluttered with many addresses. Other mail clients such as Thunderbird resolve the group members when the message is sent.
How hard is it to make it configurable? I can see pros and cons for both. If id have to pick one id leave it as is. I like that you can remove some addresses afterwards.
- How to remove contacts from a group? The current implementation just
removes the contact when hitting "delete" and a contact group is selected. If no group is selected, the "delete" function will prompt the user before finally deleting the currently selected contact.
I think your current implementation is fine. It's intuitive. Exactly what id expect it to do.
Some things for future work..
- obviously hooks so our plugins can get the info. My compose_addressbook plugin is dying for access :)
- maybe a site-wide setting on maximum number of entries in a group. Many SMTP servers will only allow so many recipients. I would not enjoy seeing people add 300 recipients to their groups and making them de facto mailinglists :)
Regards,
Cor
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