Thanks for your assistance, Harold and Fahrzin.

I've developed the patch and have attached it to this message (let me know if there's someplace else I should send it instead).

A few concerns:

1. The search() method in rcube_contacts.inc; I think while testing this

patch, I think I found a glitch in it. If you have a contact in your address book and you delete it by mistake, then try to add the same contact again, it will see it as a duplicate and won't let you add it. This is because the search() method searches all contacts, even those with the del flag set. Should I try to fix this, or just file a bug report? Does anybody more familiar with the source know if it will break anything if I make it only search records not deleted? Or maybe when instructed to add a duplicate contact, Roundcube should simply turn off the 'del' flag if it's set?

2. I didn't know the best way to get the raw email address from the

$MESSAGE headers, so I wrote a simple method that uses preg_match to extract it. If there's a better way, please let me know and I'll update my patch.

3. Caching causes a bit of a glitch in my patch. If you click a message

with remote objects, click Always display, it will add the sender to the address book and display the images. If you go right back to the message however it will show the cached version so you have to Shift-Reload or it will appear it was unsuccessful. I'd be grateful if anybody knows a way around this.

4. As I'm monolinguistic, I've only added the message for it

($messages['alwaysshow']) to the en_US locale, so it won't display properly if your locale is different. Sorry.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks, Ben

On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 23:12:20 +0200, Harold Aling h.aling@home.nl wrote:

On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 15:57:12 -0400, Ben ben@forlent.com wrote:

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to start by writing a patch that allows you to "always display" images

in

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messages from specific senders, so you don't have to click "display images" each time you open their message.

Being kind of new to this, my questions are as follows:

1. is anybody already working on this feature?

Check the bug reports/feature requests on trac...

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2. If I do develop it, would it likely be added to the project?

If it's well written, modulair and easy to implement: sure...

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3. How would I go about implementing it? Just download the SVN and patch

it? Then do I send this list the patched files or just the snippets I modified or something else?

I believe that's the best way to do it. It'll probably won't make it into 1.0, so I'd guess writing it against SVN would give you the best base...

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4. From a technical standpoint, what would be the best way to store the

whitelist of email senders? Flatfile, new database table, or in the address book?

I'd go for the addressbook option. Email addresses which are stored in

the

addressbook are in my case always trusted...

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Thanks, Ben

Good luck!

-H-

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