[MlMt] r5907 and Group Address completion

[Verdon Vaillancourt]

I appreciate this detailed explanation. I've been trying to figure out WTF was going on in my Contacts app for a while. This sheds the light that I need. Honestly, the Contacts app is NASTY but it integrates with everything Apple, and I have so many Apple devices, I feel pretty locked into it.

Thanks again,
Verdon

> On Aug 17, 2022, at 11:08 AM, Glenn Parker <glenn.parker at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 22 Jul 2022, at 12:12, Glenn P. Parker wrote:
> 
> I have also noticed some odd behavior with address group completion. For me, a particular group of 10 addresses gets doubled (the entire group is repeated) every time. However, a larger group of about 15 or so consistently expands correctly.
> 
> The latest test release (56911) fixes my issues with address group expansion. I spent most a day noodling around with the Mac Contacts app and Google Contacts to narrow down the problem, after which Bennie was able to reproduce it and apply a fix.
> 
> If anyone is interested, here are the gory details.
> 
> The specific issue was with “unified” contacts, where the Mac Contacts app combines address book entries from two (or more) sources into a single virtual contact. For entries like this, you will see a “cards” section in the Mac Contacts app that lists the sources for the entry, e.g. “Google”, “iCloud”, or “On My Mac”. This allows you to view and edit (?) the information from each source, or to break a link to a source, if need be.
> 
> OK, why would you want to have multiple sources for an address? Wouldn’t it make more sense to maintain a single source to avoid confusion and/or duplication? Great questions! That’s what I thought I was doing by keeping all my addresses in Google Contacts, then enabling my Google account in the Contacts app. And it worked fine until I created an address group in the Contacts app (and I think Bennie updated the Contacts handling code).
> 
> The Mac Contacts app does not sync the address groups (tags) from Google, so I have to manually create these groups in Mac Contacts. Not a huge deal, since my groups have less than 20 addresses and they don’t change very often, but I do have to manually manage these groups across 2 or 3 devices. But, when I drag a Google contact into a Mac Contacts group, I end up with a local “shadow” copy of the Google contact. The source for this new copy is “On My Mac”. I didn’t ask for this copy, it’s something the Contacts app does automatically. The copy has all the same data as the Google contact, and presumably the Contacts app needs it to implement the address group, but this means any Google source address that is used in a group now gets two sources: “Google” and “On My Mac”.
> 
> The bug was that MailMate ignored entries with more than one source during address group auto-completion while composing a message. To make matters more confusing, due to some sloppiness on my part, my existing groups contained a mix of single and two-source addresses. Only the two-source addresses were being dropped, and it took a while to notice that specific feature of these addresses (having two sources). I flushed and re-synced my Mac Contacts database, then I re-created my groups. That meant that every address in the group now had two sources, and this totally broke the address group in MailMate. At that point, Bennie could reproduce the problem and develop the patch.
> 
> Everything seems to work correctly now. Thanks, Bennie!
> 
> Glenn P. Parker
> glenn.parker at comcast.net
> 
> _______________________________________________
> mailmate mailing list
> mailmate at lists.freron.com
> https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.freron.com/pipermail/mailmate/attachments/20220817/57a361e8/attachment.htm>