Ubuntu
evolution package

automatic contacts are disabled by default in the preferences dialog

Bug #81615 reported by Vincenzo Ciancia
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evolution (Ubuntu)
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Wishlist
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: evolution

Many e-mail clients automatically collect and complete "used" e-mail addresses. This functionality is provided in evolution by the autocontacts plugin, which is disabled by default in the preferences dialog. In my opinion, a new user should find this plugin enabled by default, perhaps with an ad-hoc addressbook instead of the default one.

Tags: bitesize
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Nice idea. Is it stable enough?

Changed in evolution:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml) wrote :

It needs evolution to be restarted after applying the setting, it seems, but then it seems to work fine. It should perhaps be extended to add autocollection of any "to:" address in a sent e-mail, but this is another story. There was the following bug

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/68642

but it seems that latest updates solved the problem.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

I'm not convinced that people want to add random people to their adressbook only because they replied to one of their mails. Could you mail the <email address hidden> list to know what people think about that?

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Any news on this? may you send an email to the ubuntu-desktop list to grab some opinions?

Changed in evolution:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.

Changed in evolution:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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