[MlMt] Delete Autocompleted E-Mail Address From To Field

Vincent Noel vincent.noel at gmail.com
Wed Mar 13 07:49:57 UTC 2013


On 12 Mar 2013, at 22:54, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 12 Mar 2013, at 17:34, Bill Cole wrote:
>
>> On 8 Mar 2013, at 8:20, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>>
>>> It'll be very hard for MailMate to predict which one you want. I 
>>> assume you have the addresses marked as work/private in the Address 
>>> Book and what you need is some way to see this information in 
>>> MailMate when auto-completing?
>>
>> Rather than requiring an explicit marking of addresses, I'd rather 
>> see MM construct & sort the list more intelligently. One improvement 
>> would be to canonicalize & de-dupe addresses so that only the most 
>> frequently used version of functionally identical addresses is 
>> offered. For example, if I type my boss' first name into the To 
>> field, I get 7 choices in the pop-up, all of which have one of his 
>> addresses (his name is not very common) and 5 of which share 
>> functionally identical email addresses, with variations in the "real 
>> name" part and address capitalizations. I don't really care much 
>> which of those 5 I use, but it would be better to have 3 choices 
>> rather than 7, with the first one being the most commonly used form 
>> of the most commonly used address.

I'm seeing that too, a lot.
Here is a pathological example:
http://db.tt/iZjaPDxs

I would be very happy if there was a way to de-dup the list.

Cheers,
V.


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