14373 - [FEATURE] Need UI in account manager to add/edit vCard

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P3)

Description

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heed the pref on sending email
migrate the users 4.x vcard, if they have it.
need ui for editing / creating vcard.

Comment 1

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marking m12.

accepting.

Comment 2

[Phil Peterson]

M15

Comment 3

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moving to m16.

Comment 4

[selmer (gone)]

Sol, mark M16 if needed in beta2.

Comment 5

[selmer (gone)]

[FEATURE] bugs past M16 are OUT for this release.  Marking M20.  If you disagree 
with this action, please help me explain it to the PDT.

Comment 6

[lchiang]

Do we not support vcards in Netscape 6 then?

Comment 7

[rhp (gone)]

Well, we will support rendering vCards in NSCP 6...not sure about sending.

- rhp

Comment 8

[lchiang]

If there is no UI for editing a vcard, so what happens if a user migrates a pref 
which has the setting to include a vcard?  Will the user have to edit the prefs 
file to remove that setting if s/he wants to not use vcards any longer?  Laurel 
- can you double check for me? T hanks.

Comment 9

[sol]

I don't think we should do the work to enable sending of vCards in Seamonkey.

Comment 10

[laurel]

I'm not sure all of what you wanted me to check, Lisa, but here's what I see
when migrating from 4.x with pref set to always attach vcard to messages:

1.  The 4.x pref lines relating to vcard and option to always attach are present
in seamonkey prefs.js, i.e. user_pref("mail.attach_vcard", true). No conversion
takes place to a 6.0 style pref, i.e. mail.identity.id1<pref> .  So seamonkey
doesn't pay attention to it.
2.  No vcard is attached to new message compositions and I found no errors
resulting when sending from a migrated profile in which 4.x had attach_vcard
set.
3.  A vcard sent from 4.x and received in seamonkey seems to render fine (I
didn't try any fancy vcard content.)
4.  The only weirdness I can see/think of (and I haven't looked for existing
bugs on this) is when you Edit|Message as New or Forward a message with a vcard.
In the Edit as New case I tried, I see a textual representation of the card is
sent and not translated by 4.x... 

Does that answer your question(s)?

So, a user wouldn't have the vcard option after migration. Wouldn't have to edit
prefs to disabled.

Comment 11

[Hong Kwon]

is this a possibility for 0.9.6 or beyond?

Comment 12

[Roger D]

Could we solve this as a mail template: if migrating a profile that has  the
send vCard option set, add a new template that attaches the vcard? Or is an
attchment not something that a template can do?

Comment 13

[Roger D]

Or how about a signature file? Can that include an attachment?

Comment 14

[Ian Neal]

Attaching a vcard as the signature doesn't work (I tried it) but it does as a
normal file attachment. Would still be nice to have a way of editing it though.

Comment 15

[Michael Wardle]

Yes, a vCard works as an attachment, but there does not even seem to be an
automated way of attaching a certain file to each message.  Perhaps this is a
bad idea in general, but a facility to automatically attach existing vCards to
outgoing mail would solve part of this problem.

Comment 16

[Max Headroom]

You can currently attach it by opening the Mail & News Account Settings, Attach
this signature, "Choose" button.  Unfortunately, it considers it as text instead
of a MIME attachment.

Modifying the "Attach this signature" to "Attach this signature or vCard" would
be helpful as a stopgap until full vCard functionality can be written.

Is this feature anywhere on Netscape's todo list?

Comment 17

[Ian Neal]

There are alot of users out there that currently use vCards under NS4.x and
having this feature missing will make it harder to advocate the use of Mozilla.

Comment 18

[Zac Spitzer]

shouldn't add to address book use a vcard if defined?

Comment 19

[Ian Neal]

Taking from [e-mail] (Seth Spitzer)

Comment 20

[Ian Neal]

Accepting

As far as I can see there are two ways of tackling this:
1) Store the vcard within the pref for each account/identity
2) Store the vcard in a file which is selected similar to a signature for attaching.

Currently you can send vcards by creating a .vcf in the right format and
attaching it as a file to the email you send, which makes me lean towards the
second option.

Any thoughts?

Comment 21

[Aleksander Adamowski]

2nd option sounds more reasonable and presents better separation of that data
from user preferences which IMO are a different thing.

This way a user can place the vcard manually in Mozilla's profile dir or
anywhere else if there's need (e.g. for sharing the vcard between Mozilla and
other e-mail clients).

A future RFE regarding an integrated vCard file generator could be opened later...

Such a generator would be available from account prefs and would be able to
generate a new vCard file initialized with data from the current account (Name,
e-mail) and let them be edited further.

Also an API for creating vCard files should be accessible from anywhere in
Mozilla (e.g. for future implementations of "Save card as vCard" and "Export
cards as vCard files" in address book)

Comment 22

[Michael Baffoni]

I suppose there is no chance for simply picking a card out of one of the address
books?  This would re-use a current gui and database structure, and all you
would need to do is a one-time extraction (at card selection time) of the
information to be put in whatever vcard storage you choose (I suppose you could
have a later feature that pulls the information at each launch or even each
compose so the information is dynamically updated...)

Comment 23

[Scott MacGregor]

*** Bug 221169 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 24

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taking back, about to land.

Comment 25

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Attachment: patch, includes fix for bug #206793

Comment 26

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*** Bug 176807 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 27

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*** Bug 159068 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 28

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Comment on attachment 132693 [details] [diff] [review]
patch, includes fix for bug #206793

r/sr=sspitzer on mscott's patch.

Comment 29

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Ian Neal, Aleksander Adamowski and Michael Baffoni:  you bring up some good
points and ideas.  Some of them are already covered by other bugs (query for vcard).

if you have other ideas, suggestions or RFEs, please log bugs.

Comment 30

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scott checked in his patch a few minutes ago.

Comment 31

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified FIXED using 2004-07-25-09 on Windows XP.