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

[Robert Goldman]

The sorting of Mac contacts is a selectable option: it's configurable in Settings > General in the Contacts app's preferences.

Note that I have previously posted on oddities with completion -- cases where an address is not found by completion from first name, but only from last name. I have not been able to determine what dictates whether this will happen for a particular name and address.

On 25 Apr 2023, at 15:47, Randy Bush wrote:

> mac contacts are sorted by first name.  i have tried autocomple from
> first and last names.  i could try sorting contacts by last name i
> guess.
>
> ahhhh.  still sorting by first name, if i try to automplete with last
> name, i get better results.  the problem is that it is the last named
> i tend to forget :)
>
> randy
>
>> 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
>> - -
>> Techworks Pro Co.
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>>
>> 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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