[turba] add a book icon next to a sender's e-mail

[Michael Rubinsky]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> Zitat von Michael Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:
>
>> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>>
>>> Zitat von Michael Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:
>>>
>>>> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>>>>
>>>>> Zitat von Michael Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Quoting gimili <gimili17 at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Martin Fraser wrote:
>>>>>>>> In IMP, click on options at the top of the screen.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Under Other Options there is a section for Address Books.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The drop down list at the bottom of that screen is labelled:
>>>>>>>> "Choose the address book to use when adding addresses."
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> With that drop down you have to choose the address book to use when
>>>>>>>> adding addresses, surprisingly enough ;)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Once that is done IMP will know where to put new contacts and a little
>>>>>>>> icon should appear next to any unknown contact when you open  
>>>>>>>> the email.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there a way to automate this for everyone so that it is the default
>>>>>>> behaviour and they don't have to do the above steps?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It depends on the type of address book source you are using in
>>>>>> Turba.  You can set the preference in imp/config/prefs.php, but only
>>>>>> if you  set it to a source that does _not_ have shares enabled,
>>>>>> since each  user's address book is identified by a unique id.
>>>>>
>>>>> We should probably provide an example hook that even allows this for
>>>>> shared address books.
>>>>
>>>> Sure. Would this be a new turba hook, or were you thinking of
>>>> something like a postauthenticate hook?
>>>
>>> Neither. It should be a preference hook for IMP.
>>
>> ...but the functionality that this hook would provide (turning a
>> share-enabled source name into the user's actual share id/name)
>> would  be useful in other places as well. Specifically, if we were
>> to do  this, it would be nice to be able to use this in Turba's
>> addressbook,  sync, default_dir etc... I guess that would require a
>> pref hook in  Turba as well?
>
> Yes, indeed. Correct me if I'm wrong, but we currently use sane
> defaults for the address book prefs everywhere, so this is only
> necessary if people want to set different default values that still
> include the user's personal share, right?
>
> So we probably don't need a hook for each and every pref, but just an
> example, both in IMP and Turba about how to retrieve the user's share
> name. People can generate other hooks from there.

I believe that is correct, regarding sane defaults in Turba...an  
example should work well.

Thanks,
mike

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