"Roland Winkler" <[email protected]> writes: > Part of BBDB (yes, even v2) has allowed the possibility that a mail > address in a record is not just a plain "[email protected]". But the > record of, say, Johnathan Smith may also contain an RFC 822 address > such as "John Smith <[email protected]>". > > Jognathan Smith > phone (home): (123) 456-7890 > mail: [email protected], John Smith <[email protected]>, > Joe Smith <[email protected]> > > Obviously, this comes handy, if you want to use different mail > addresses in a record with different real names.
With BBDB v2 I always used separate records for this case, putting (home), (work) etc in the record name, because cycling thru the email addresses simply did not work properly; it always used the last one. Now that's fixed, but I suspect I'll still use separate records in a case like this. For example, [email protected] should have a different work phone than [email protected]. But maybe I need to experiment more. It would be nice to not have (home) show up in the final email address; putting a real name in the Mail field could fix that (assuming it overrides the real name in the record). > Would it be useful if the canonical mail address "[email protected]" > contained in full mail address "John Smith <[email protected]>" was > recognized properly throughout BBDB? I suspect so, yes. Perhaps a solution is to make the mail: field more structured: mail: 1: name: "" mail: 1: email: [email protected] mail: 2: name: "John Smith" mail: 2: email: [email protected] mail: 3: name: "Joe Smith" mail: 3: email: [email protected] Which would require even bigger code changes, but might be better in the long run. -- -- Stephe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
