On 9 Dec 2020, at 16:48, Glenn Parker wrote:
It’s a reasonable question because many other email clients provide
their own integrated address books. MailMate simulates some of this by
indexing the email addresses from (a subset of) existing email
messages, but MailMate does not have its own address book. That means
MailMate only knows about addresses in the *messages* it has already
seen, and address groups are not readily captured that way.
To complete the functionality, MailMate uses the Contacts application
and its underlying database. You can see this in the MailMate
Preferences under the Composer tab which offers three options for
Auto-Completion, including “Contacts”.
This is a limitation since, like you and many others, I don’t rely
on the Mac’s Contacts application (or iCloud) to maintain my address
book. Personally, I use the Google Contacts system, but obviously
there are many options. Google Contacts supports the CardDAV protocol,
and LDAP servers are common, but MailMate does not integrate directly
with either of these yet.
The solution I have settled on for now is a third party app called
“Contacts Sync for Google Gmail” that supports one-way and full
duplex synchronization between Google Contacts, the local Mac Contacts
app (or iCloud Contacts).
I'm not sure why you need another app: Contacts is linked with my Google
account (I don't use G-mail, just the address book and the calendar)
along with an Exchange server and MailMate can read them both.
Charlie
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