On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 11:56 -0400, Dinbandhu wrote: > As a point of clarification: will your patch add all new addresses > that > come in the in-box?
My patch will not add all addresses that comes in the Inbox. My patch is to add all the addresses to which you *send* a mail. > > It does seem like a reasonable point made by Art Alexion, that one > would > not want to have spammers' etc e-mail addresses added. Please clarify > how your patch would work. > > I would think that it may make sense to require some proactive action > on > the part of the user to indicate interest in the address: for example, > if the user click's on "reply" to a mail then that is an obvious sign > of > interest in the address. Yet also, I would add that if one initiates a > correspondence by typing the address, i.e. if one is the first writer > of > a letter-- then too, the address should be added (if it is new). > > Does anyone know the exact way that Thunderbird's auto address feature > works in this regard? Does it add ALL new e-mail addresses that arrive > in the in-box? Or if not, then what are the criteria for automatically > adding an address in TB? -- Sankar P Harver's Law: A drunken man's words are a sober man's thoughts Novell, Inc. Software for the Open Enterprise™ http://www.novell.com _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
