MailNews:Address Book

This page is for planning items related to address book part of MailNews.

What's being worked on?

This is a list of things we are currently looking at/working on with respect to address book. These are things known to the MailNews devs, note we'll try to keep the list up to date, but don't guarentee it, and schedules won't apply here - We have limited people for address book and we work on it when we can.

• Remove nsFileSpec from Address Book - almost complete (see bug 132180). This is really a tidy up to the backend so that we're not using obsolete code.
• Drag and Drop fixes (bug 35837 & others)
• Address Book autocomplete transfer to toolkit (WIP)

What's being thought about?

This list contains things that we'd like to be able to get round to doing, or have previously been discussing. Again, no schedules and same comments apply as above.

• MailNews:Address Book Interface Formats
• MailNews:Address Book Native Formats
• Relayout the new/edit card dialogs
  • This would be to solve our current screen size issue
  • but would also be in preparation for the addition of more fields
  • MailNews: Address Book Card Fields - what fields do we want?
• VCard - we need to either rewrite this or find a decent library.
• Remove nsDirPrefs.h and nsDirPrefs.cpp - they are a real mess and get in the way quite a bit.
• LDAP
  • Writeable LDAP address books
  • MailNews:LDAP and Large Searches

Wish List

What do you want to see in address book? Many wishes/enhancements have been discussed previously.

Please let us use the discussion for what ideas we would like to see address book include in future.