Re: Devin's effort

Well, glad to know about the nesting.

The other is a big deal for me because I teach for a living. I can have 
30-50 students in each of 4-5 classes for a semester and need a way to 
reach each class during the term. Then I never need it again.

So obviously creating individual contacts is out of the question, and even 
the alternative (I think maybe Apple Mail does this) of the mail client 
creating them for me is also bad, because I either get a hugely bloated 
address book or need to go through and delete them individually.

I realize not everyone (and sometimes I think no one!) has these same 
concerns, but it's a biggie for me.

By the way, management of multiple, independent IMAP accounts and 
identities is also crucial for me (since someone asked about Mulberry 
features we depend on). I only have 6 or so, but it would be a pain not to 
have that.

Thanks!
Steve

--On April 20, 2015 10:44:47 AM -0400 Tanstaafl <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> On 4/20/2015 10:19 AM, Steven Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote:
>> But the last time I checked TB doesn't do two things that are important
>> to me: 1) support nested groups in the address book
>
> Assuming you mean what TB calls 'Lists', I never tried to create a
> nested one, but I just tried, and it allowed me to...
>
> These are real lists, so I don't want to spam these people by testing,
> but it looks like it will work...
>
> I'll test with some test addresses I have for things like this a little
> later when I have more time(Mondays are busy around here)...
>
>> 2) allow copy/paste creation of an address group without creating
>> individual contacts.
>
> No, I know it does require that members of lists be actual entries in
> one of your Address Books...
>
> I'll freely admit Address Books is one area that needs some love - and
> as I said, it is getting some (finally), though the full rewrite (where
> it changes from a Mork DB backend to SQLite) will probably take a while...
>
>> Has TB begun supporting these features? Last I knew only Mulberry
>> (and Pine! :) supported them, but I'd love to know that there's an
>> alternative.
>
> If these particular features are deal breakers, then for now, I'd stay
> with what is working...



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