Hi there,
as I already said in an earlier mail, we're in the process of moving from Squirrel to RC, for a number of good reasons (the more attractive UI of RC being the least important one).
There are still some issues, though, some of them currently being show stoppers. I'm gonna post them here one by one during the next days and weeks.
One of the show stoppers is the address book, which doesn't seem to work (almost) at all. Well, you can enter and edit contacts, BUT:
- Selecting a contact in the contact list and clicking the "Compose mail
to" button creates an entry in the To: field that looks like this: "real name <>" (without the quotes, of course) So the address gets lost completely, and the upper case characters of the real name are converted to lower case.
- Clicking the "Show Address Book" button in the compose window and
selecting one or more entries in the overlay window will lead to the same result as in 1), except that upper case characters of real names are not converted to lower case. But the addresses get lost as well. Furthermore, the sort order in the overlay window is different to the sort order in the address book itself: In the address book the entries are sorted by last name, the overlay window sorts them by first name (which I prefer).
- The only thing that works flawlessly is typing the first characters of a
contact name in one of the address fields of the compose window, and then selecting one of the proposed entries.
As nobody else seems to have reported these issues in the list yet, I'm wondering if and what we might be doing wrong. 7.5.2 is meant to be a stable version, and I can't imagine that it has an address book implementation which is almost unusable.
- Not a show stopper, but also not very convenient: If you limit the "Rows
per page" in the Personal Settings to say 20 (because you are using the preview pane in the main window and don't want to display more mails than will fit into the space above the preview pane), then the address book does also show only 20 entries per page, although there is of course no preview pane. Is this deliberate? Can I apply a small patch that avoids this behaviour? (I'm a former Turbo Pascal programmer, but my PHP skills are pretty poor.)
If more specific information about our server environment is needed, please let me know.
Any help appreciated and TIA.
Michael Heydekamp Co-Admin freexp.de Düsseldorf/Germany