GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 503991
Automatic Contacts should use separate address book
Last modified: 2021-05-19 11:37:07 UTC
By default, the "Automatic Contacts" feature should use a separate address book, probably named "Automatic Contacts". It's annoying to have the "Personal" address book filled with all sorts of contacts that are not in any way personal contacts. It takes extra work to separate this later. For people that aren't going to ever care to separate them, having them separated by default isn't going to do any harm.
But you can create an address book locally and add it in preferences and if you don't want contacts to be added automatically, just disable the plugin. Let me you know your views, other wise this bug can be closed.
Yes, but when I set it up to automatically add contacts to a new address book, it added address that already featured in my Personal Address book. It should check whether the contact exists in any address book before adding it automatically. I don't want my personal contacts duplicated, I may as well just have the one address book in that case.
Akhil, if you take a step back and look at this exchange without the specifics, perhaps it will be clearer: Me: Evolution should do X by default to save me from doing X by hand, which is extra work. It doesn't hurt anyone who doesn't care about X. Akhil Laddha: But you can do X by hand. Joe, that should likely be filed as a separate bug report. If you file one, please let me know so I can add myself to the CC list.
Richard, I don't think it that everybody shares your preference of having Automatic Contacts add the contacts to a separate address book.
Sorry I don't know what I was thinking at 2009-09-30T1514Z, I apologize my closemindedness, if you will. Is this already implemented? I have been using Thunderbird because Evolution started showing problems with SMTP.
I kind of agree with this, but it's not a priority right now. Removing "wontfix?" tag.
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