On 04/09/2012 10:16, Michael Heydekamp wrote:
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,
Regarding number 1, I can not duplicate your issue on either my production (0.7.2) system, nor on my development (0.8-beta). Selecting one or more addresses and clicking the Compose-to button works perfectly every time for me.
For number 2, can I assume that you are using the compose_addressbook plugin for that? If so, we also use that plugin, and it also works properly for us in 0.7.2. (That plugin will not be necessary in 0.8, the contact list is visible in the compose window by default.)
What address books are you using when you see these problems - the default SQL or an LDAP book?