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:

1) 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.

2) 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).

3) 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.

4) 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.