[imp] auto_expand option gone with no replacement?

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Paul A Sand <pas at unh.edu>:

> Hi --
>
> We recently implemented a long-overdue upgrade of Horde/Imp/Etc. to the
> latest versions. Our old Imp version was creaky: 4.1.6.
>
> This went pretty well, but one user has a big addressbook, and doesn't
> like the large popup list she gets when she starts typing in the To:
> field of a compose window.
>
> We have 'localsql' and 'localldap' Turba sources set up (I think)
> in a pretty standard way.
>
> As near as I can tell, back in the old version, there was an Imp
> 'auto_expand' preference that allowed a user to turn off this behavior.
>>> From docs/UPGRADING, it appears it was dropped in 4.2.
>
> Am I missing something, or is there now no way for a user to turn off the
> auto expansion? (I suggested changing the 'search_sources' preference
> in the Options, but even moving both addressbooks from the 'selected'
> side to the 'available' side still causes the auto-expand for addresses
> in the user addressbook.)

IIRC all address books will be used, if none has been specified. So  
she should try to create a new, empty address book, and select that in  
her search source preference.

> If that's so, is there anything I can suggest to her, besides:
>
>    "type faster"
>    "type smarter" (like last name first, maybe?)
>    "delete addresses"
>
> ... because I tried those suggestions already, and she wasn't impressed.

Jan.

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