[MlMt] r5907 and Group Address completion

[Harvey Leff]

I agree with Henry, who wrote "we can ask Benny to fix Contacts flaws. 
Maybe we can ask for an interface to \[Busy 
Contacts\](www.busymac.com)".

A Mailmate-Busy Contacts linkage would be wonderful.

Harvey Leff
Portland, OR USA
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On 29 Jul 2022, at 9:00, mailmate-request at lists.freron.com wrote:

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> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 19:23:23 +0000
> From: Henry Seiden <info at techworkspro.com>
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> Cc: Benny Kjaer Nielsen <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
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> Ed,
>
> The app I use instead of Contacts which accesses the database just 
> fine
> (and stores is away in its own configuration, BTW) is Busy Contacts. 
> It
> uses a different methodology that makes it compatible but separate and
> more stable. It uses a tag field so you can sort on the tag. I 
> haven’t
> quite figured out how to find by tag AND select the found items in one
> stroke.
>
> If I can do that I will be able to export that entire selection to an
> email bypassing all the other stuff - manual selection, etc. Then
> it’ll go straight to MailMate either in the To: or BCC: field 
> without
> any interaction with MailMate.
>
> Of course, as is MailMate only works with Contacts so we’re stuck 
> with
> all the flaws. It ain’t MailMate, though. I don’t we can ask Benny
> to fix Contacts flaws. Maybe we can ask for an interface to [Busy
> Contacts](www.busymac.com) though. What say you Mr. Wizard?
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Henry Seiden
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> On 28 Jul 2022, at 11:31, Edward Thome wrote:
>
>> On 24 Jul 2022, at 16:19, Henry Seiden wrote:
>>> I notice three things overall in my use of Contacts with MailMate:
>>> 1. In Contacts, the group name is very difficult to add or rename -
>>> seems an app issue and not the only one in Contacts, which is why I
>>> don’t use it. Unfortunately my preferred app, Busy Contacts
>>> doesn’t have the same feature, it has others.
>>> 2. Expansion of the group to show emails in MailMate. In an existing
>>> email (like this one), the group name just sits there. It isn’t
>>> expandable to a list of names for me, while in a new (empty) email 
>>> it
>>> is. MailMate issue?
>>> 3. The dropdown in MailMate does appear for each person in the
>>> expanded Mail list, once expanded view is showing, however alternate
>>> emails in each contact’s info are not visible or selectable.
>>
>> I believe that you are correct in that Contacts.app is involved.
>> I believe that if a contact card comes from more than one set of
>> contact groups (say, iCloud, LocalISP, Gmail), then it won’t show 
>> up
>> when the group completes. You can tell by looking at the contact in
>> Contacts.app and looking for the entry for “cards” just above
>> “note”.
>>
>> If you are using a Smart Group, this can cause the address to show up
>> twice.
>>
>> I have my all my Contacts pruned accordingly, and it is working for 
>> me
>> now.
>>
>> Thanks, for the tip, Henry.
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