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Package:           kmail
Version:           KDE 3.0.0 
Severity:          wishlist
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
Compiler:          Not Specified
OS:                Linux
OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified

By now the email addresses provided by the [...] button are generated by KabcBridge::addresses(QStringList* result) in kmaddrbook.cpp like this:

QString n = (*it).prefix() + " " +
                (*it).givenName() + " " +
                (*it).additionalName() + " " +
                (*it).familyName() + " " +
                (*it).suffix();

and somewhere later

addr += '<' + email + '>';

It would be nice to infuence the way of how these addresses are created somewhere in the configuration of kmail.

E.g. I don't want to have the prefix in the email address (but perhaps use it in a letter so it should stay in the addressbook) or I want to include the nickname in the address.

I'd prefer a highly configurable interface perhaps by defining a string in the configuration that looks like 

${prefix} ${givenName} ${additionalName} ${familyName} ${suffix} <${email}> 

in the standard format and could be modified e.g. to 

${givenName} "${nickName}" ${familyName} <${email}>

for my purposes so that I can create addresses like:

Rudolf "The Killer" Mooshammer


But maybe it would be more sensible just to provide the possibility to choose fields from the addressbook with checkboxes (or so) in the kmail configuration to have an easier user interface but that's something you have to decide for which people you intended kmail: hackers or clickers. ;-) 


Thanks for the nice program so far 

best regards
Andreas Hoffmann. 

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