On Wed Aug 1 2012 Stephen Leake wrote: > 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.
I do not quite see why an email address needs to be associated with a phone number. For some records I do have a bunch of phone numbers as well as a bunch of email addresses. But I cannot think of situations where I wanted to have something like an association list associating phone numbers with email addresses. > 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). As my example showed, you can combine canonical mail addresses [email protected] with real names like "John Smith <[email protected]>". I do not know in which context you think of "overriding" the real name. If you send an email to [email protected], the message header will become To: John Smith <[email protected]> no matter, what the name field of the record contains. > 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. First of all, this requires an incompatible change of the format of BBDB records, which I'd like to avoid. Also, I'd like to keep the user interface as simple as possible. Roland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
