[turba] multiple email addresses for one contact

[Martin Fraser]

Thanks for the quick reply Jan.

Jan Schneider wrote:
> Zitat von Martin Fraser <mdf at darksnow.net>:
> 
>> Has this issue been resolved for anyone?
> 
> Which issue? There is no issue.
> 
>> I've also got an LDAP addressbook setup and find that if in another
>> program I add multiple entries for email, or any other field, they
>> simply return a comma separated list, which is not correct.
> 
> What is "they"?
> 
The multiple email addresses

>> Why can't Turba show multiple entries as multiple entries rather than
>> one incorrectly concatenated list. I guess this is not an issue if
>> people have multiple nicknames, since a comma separated list here will
>> be fine for viewing, but email should be separate clickable links.
> 
> How is that incorrectly concatenated?
> 
They should be separate email address links, not one link which is a 
concatenation of all the addresses.

>> Then we get to the issue of entering the data. I under stand this may be
>> a problem with the SQL driver (how do you enter multiple email addresses
>> into a single field) but it should allow it for LDAP backends.
> 
> The problem is, it has to work for *all* backends.
> 
Having had a look through the code that generates the contact form, I 
can see that this really is a problem ;)

>> This problem seems to have been posted to the list a few times with no
>> resolution I could find.
> 
> I still fail to see the problem actually.
> 
If I have multiple email addresses for a contact and I click on one of 
them in Turba I expect Imp to start a compose window sending a message 
to that address, not to all the addresses for that contact.


Hope that clears up what I meant.

Cheers. Martin...