GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 496402
Evolution Automatic Contacts Plugin not excluding blocked users
Last modified: 2008-01-10 18:20:21 UTC
This is an upstream of Opensuse 10.3 bug in BNC https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=335070 The Evolution Automatic Contacts Plugin includes a feature to automatically import buddies from your Instant Messaging accounts into the Evolution address book. This is a great feature, and I commend the author for this plugin. One drawback. AIM keeps blocked names in their list. These blocks are indicated by a 'blocked' icon. Commonly, we block spammers coming to us over instant messaging. Unfortunately, the Automatic Contacts plugin apparently does not recognize blocked users on the list and imports them. I have about 75 spammers now listed in my Evolution address book. :-) I really don't think we want our address books cluttered with spammer addresses. The only way, currently, to avoid this is to remove those names from our list. But then that opens up spammers to come after us again. The Automatic Contacts plugin does not have configurable options. In the spirit of freedom of choice, perhaps we can add a configurable option to allow us to exclude blocked names. *Note: I've been told to redirect Evolution stuff to bugzilla.gnome.org, but since this is a specific plugin written by Nat Friedman at Novell, I'm assuming I'm filing in the right place here. Comments ------- Comment #1 From Sankar P 2007-10-19 04:10:37 MST [reply] ------- I do not understand why you want to keep a blocked user in your pidgin buddies-list. This bug report about bbdb reminded me about some changes that I did sometime back. With that all email addresses to whom you send a mail, will be added to your Evolution Addressbook (instead of those to whom you reply). ------- Comment #2 From Sankar P 2007-10-19 04:12:42 MST [reply] ------- Created an attachment (id=179411) [details] Fix This patch will fix the problem of blocked buddies getting synced to Evo-Contacts. Let me know once this bug is upstreamed in b.g.o so that I can commit the patch. ------- Comment #3 From Bryen Yunashko 2007-10-19 06:34:36 MST [reply] ------- Regarding Comment#1 ... "I do not understand why you want to keep a blocked user in your pidgin buddies-list." Answer: Not my choice. That's just how AIM sets up their block methodology. But without keeping them in the list as "blocked", then they are able to continue to IM me. Regarding Comment#2... How do I download this attachment? I'd love to test out the fix and report back to you. But everytime I click on attachment, I get text rather than an actual file to download.
Created attachment 101421 [details] [review] proposed evo patch for evolution; I hope Sankar will not be unhappy that I stole him this bug.
@milan: no problem, it was only his *bug*, not his *car* (giggle). (you're allowed to make two prejudice-jokes about me the next time.)
Milan: I wish the patch was also upstreamed along with the bug :( https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=179411
(In reply to comment #3) > Milan: I wish the patch was also upstreamed along with the bug :( The patch was not committed for SuSE also. We thought we will commit it to Gnome SVN and hence it automatically comes for next release. But bad that the patch was missed everywhere. Kandepu Prasad: Here after if you are upstreaming a bug, and if the bnc bug has a patch, can you upstream it as well ? > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=179411 >
Sorry, my mistake. I'll take care from next time.
Sankar, Do you approve the patch?
Milan Commit this. I have got a nod from Sankar.
Committed to trunk. Committed revision 34795.