[MlMt] using Apple Contacts.app address book in MM message compose mode

[Henry Seiden]

Randy,

FWIW. There do seem to be some bugs about the use of Mac Contacts data 
in addressing a new message. Here are my findings and experience (in the 
same version, latest MM v1.14 Test Build 5964 (running on a MBP2021 P1 
Pro in MacOS 13.3.1 version):
1. The LAST NAME of the contact where the primary contact is a name not 
a company. Last name must be used first so it depends on the name 
sorting in use with Contacts, I suppose. The sorting selection in my 
Contacts app is not coincidentally, by Last Name and always has been. 2. 
In cases where the name entry of the Company is primary (or no name 
exists, E.G., the name defaults to Company name), first part of the name 
(even a few letters) is sufficient to pull it up.
3. There is a choice of email addresses (scrollable listing) to select 
in a dropdown, available in the case of multiple email addresses within 
a found contact.
4. Not finding details on how this auto-selection of new email addresses 
is supposed to work in MM’s Help>Compose or Help>Preferences areas of 
the Help menu. Don’t know the intent of MM as to whether this is a bug 
or not, whether it depends on Sorting preferences in the Contact Menu 
settings or not. Feel free to experiment and let us know. Contacts 
itself doesn’t work the same way to search for a name. I typically use 
the last name or reply to an existing message, which copied the sender 
into the To: fields or all addressees in case of a reply all selection. 
My choices may work around what you experience.


Respectfully,

Henry Seiden
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Techworks Pro Co.
E: info<at>techworkspro<dot>com
W: http://techworkspro.com

On 24 Apr 2023, at 13:05, Randy Bush wrote:

> latest ventura
> mailmate Version 1.14 (5964)
>
> message addressing does not seem to use my mac addrss book.  what am i
> misunderstanding?
>
> randy
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