I appreciate this detailed explanation. I've been trying to figure out WTF was going on in my Contacts app for a while. This sheds the light that I need. Honestly, the Contacts app is NASTY but it integrates with everything Apple, and I have so many Apple devices, I feel pretty locked into it.
Thanks again, Verdon > On Aug 17, 2022, at 11:08 AM, Glenn Parker <glenn.par...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > On 22 Jul 2022, at 12:12, Glenn P. Parker wrote: > > I have also noticed some odd behavior with address group completion. For me, > a particular group of 10 addresses gets doubled (the entire group is > repeated) every time. However, a larger group of about 15 or so consistently > expands correctly. > > The latest test release (56911) fixes my issues with address group expansion. > I spent most a day noodling around with the Mac Contacts app and Google > Contacts to narrow down the problem, after which Bennie was able to reproduce > it and apply a fix. > > If anyone is interested, here are the gory details. > > The specific issue was with “unified” contacts, where the Mac Contacts app > combines address book entries from two (or more) sources into a single > virtual contact. For entries like this, you will see a “cards” section in the > Mac Contacts app that lists the sources for the entry, e.g. “Google”, > “iCloud”, or “On My Mac”. This allows you to view and edit (?) the > information from each source, or to break a link to a source, if need be. > > OK, why would you want to have multiple sources for an address? Wouldn’t it > make more sense to maintain a single source to avoid confusion and/or > duplication? Great questions! That’s what I thought I was doing by keeping > all my addresses in Google Contacts, then enabling my Google account in the > Contacts app. And it worked fine until I created an address group in the > Contacts app (and I think Bennie updated the Contacts handling code). > > The Mac Contacts app does not sync the address groups (tags) from Google, so > I have to manually create these groups in Mac Contacts. Not a huge deal, > since my groups have less than 20 addresses and they don’t change very often, > but I do have to manually manage these groups across 2 or 3 devices. But, > when I drag a Google contact into a Mac Contacts group, I end up with a local > “shadow” copy of the Google contact. The source for this new copy is “On My > Mac”. I didn’t ask for this copy, it’s something the Contacts app does > automatically. The copy has all the same data as the Google contact, and > presumably the Contacts app needs it to implement the address group, but this > means any Google source address that is used in a group now gets two sources: > “Google” and “On My Mac”. > > The bug was that MailMate ignored entries with more than one source during > address group auto-completion while composing a message. To make matters more > confusing, due to some sloppiness on my part, my existing groups contained a > mix of single and two-source addresses. Only the two-source addresses were > being dropped, and it took a while to notice that specific feature of these > addresses (having two sources). I flushed and re-synced my Mac Contacts > database, then I re-created my groups. That meant that every address in the > group now had two sources, and this totally broke the address group in > MailMate. At that point, Bennie could reproduce the problem and develop the > patch. > > Everything seems to work correctly now. Thanks, Bennie! > > Glenn P. Parker > glenn.par...@comcast.net > > _______________________________________________ > mailmate mailing list > mailmate@lists.freron.com > https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
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