Bug 79048

Summary: pop-up address box in Kmail whensending message is confusing
Product: [Applications] kmail Reporter: Daniel Moyne <dmoyne>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO    
Severity: wishlist CC: luigi.toscano, webmaster
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.6.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Daniel Moyne 2004-04-04 15:41:53 UTC 
Version:           1.6.1 (using KDE 3.2 BRANCH >= 20040204, Mandrake Linux Cooker i586 - Cooker)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-6mdk)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.25-2mdk

With new KMail when sending a message choice of address of recipients can be made through a pop-up box which may appear confusing :
-  on the left side a column with a tiltle "Address book" and below 3 groups of addresses : "recent addresses", "other addresses" and "mailing lists" ; recent addresses do not systematically belong to the "Addressbook" so there is a need to change the tiltle of this column (possibility of a wrong French translation !) ; I would simply suggest "Mail addresses"
- when selecting an address in the left column this address appears in the right column ; then there is a possibility to register it as a mailing list ; then this one will be installed as such in the left column under "mailing lists"  : how can we get rid of any of these installed addresses that may have become obsolete or wrong ?
- more generally how to delete any of the "recent addresses" that may have become obsolete or wrong ?
- I would assume that "other addresses" relate to the addresses of the "Addressbook" content and therefore can be deleted only through the "Addressbook" application ?
Comment 1 Matt Douhan 2005-02-25 20:24:14 UTC 
This has changed a lot with the new reciptients editor, it would be great if you test it and report back if you feel it improves things for you.
Comment 2 Matt Douhan 2005-03-25 20:19:33 UTC 
did you try out the new editor? it would be great if you could report back your findings.

thanks in advance
Comment 3 Rob Kaper 2005-04-11 15:28:38 UTC 
Matt, is the new editor the one that makes a difference between

Person <email>
and
email (Person)

If so, the recent addresses list should *not* contain addresses already in the addressbook: the duplicates are confusing as I keep selecting the "email (Person)" one which doesn't know about encryption preferences et cetera: very, very annoying.
Comment 4 Matt Douhan 2005-04-11 16:41:18 UTC 
that looks like you are describing the autocompletion, which works that way so that you can autocomplete on both email and name

I dont have any encryption issues with autocompletion, are you saying that if you choose the wrong one it wont encrypt?
Comment 5 Rob Kaper 2005-04-11 17:03:45 UTC 
On Monday April 11 2005 4:41 pm, Matt Douhan wrote:
> I dont have any encryption issues with autocompletion, are you saying that
> if you choose the wrong one it wont encrypt?


The problem is slightly more complex: when I select the "email (Name)" variant 
instead of "Name <email>", it will not automatically pick up encryption 
preferences for that recipient from the addressbook, so I have to choose the 
key again, etc. etc. If I do encryption works fine.

So I suppose the problem only exists for contacts in the addressbook whose 
e-mail address starts with their first name, but I bet it's still rather 
confusing for anyone who hasn't read the above clarification.
Comment 6 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-08-18 08:21:36 UTC 
Thank you for your feature request. Kmail1 is currently unmaintained so we are closing all wishes. Please feel free to reopen a feature request for Kmail2 if it has not already been implemented.
Thank you for your understanding.
Comment 7 Luigi Toscano 2012-08-19 00:54:16 UTC 
Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2.