Contacts
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@rbbekkhus You have to have an email account set up in M3 in order to have contacts. I don't know if it imports contacts directly from any imported mail accounts, but I do know it syncs them with IMAP accounts on line, and most of these can import your contacts through their webmail interface.
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@dancer18 Contacts are within the email client - and they already do sync with any IMAP account that you set up. If you don't set up a mail account in the mail client, it will have nowhere to store contacts.
Do I understand this correctly? If I have contacts in my email account - IMAP - they will be synchronized automatically?
Vivaldi.net is also an IMAP account, yet the contacts listed in webmail are not shared.The only contacts that are currently synchronized are those added in the browser client either manually or automatically when replying to a new contact.
Edit:// I learned from using Thunderbird that I had to import my contacts from somewhere too. There is no synchronization or automatic import by IMAP. It is only a semi-automatic collecting of new contacts depending on my settings which contacts I want to add to what contact list.
This is somehow working in Vivaldi mail-client too. The main lack of feature is occuring at the very beginning of working with this client, because there is no option for import.
Another lack is that there is no option to have more than 1 contact list/book. -
Do I understand this correctly? If I have contacts in my email account - IMAP - they will be synchronized automatically?
Vivaldi.net is also an IMAP account, yet the contacts listed in webmail are not shared.I work almost exclusively in 3 gmail accounts. I have never pro-actively added or imported a contact. All of my contacts are present in Vivaldi. As to whether any of these came from other than my primary account, I can't say. All I know is, they can only have come from IMAP accounts on the web. There are hundreds of them, and I added or imported none of them.
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@ayespy didn't look it up yet for Vivaldi, but Opera used to add contacts automatically when sending messages to them (which was always the first thing I disabled). I don't think Vivaldi has a similar setting. Anyway, if you used GMail with M2 and this setting on, and then imported your mail and contacts from M2 ...? Just a hypothesis.
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@wildente I have never used the import function - as IMAP makes that redundant. Nor have I ever sent email to more than perhaps fifty different people using M3 - and yet, everywhere that I have M3 installed, I have all of my GMail contacts - hundreds and hundreds of them accumulated over decades.
And, yes, M3 does add contacts that you send to. It's not a setting, it just does it.
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@wildente Since it's syncing contacts on IMAP and many/most IMAP servers add contacts you send to, this might not be practicable. Maybe it could be optional on POP3.
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@ghpy That sux. Have you filed a bug?
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@ghpy That sux. Have you filed a bug?
No. To be honest I didn't want to spend more time with that topic after the hours it took me to import my mails. Plus my written mails are mostly answers to ones received. Looking up a received mail to answer it I've got the needed contact in plain sight.
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@ghpy Well, no filed bug, no fix. So when you have some time...
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As far as I know the mail client picks out contacts from the mail it has stored - so when you import from Opera M2 you will have a bunch of contacts, and when you use mail with IMAP for a while then you will also have a bunch of contacts.
What you don't have at the moment is a way to deliberately import contacts.
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Try the following workaround to import Opera 12.XX contacts from "contacts.adr" (as far as I could find, only name and address are imported):
Changes at your own risk!
Tested LastStable 4.0.2312.38 Ubuntu
- Requirements according to this post
The original "contacts.adr" is located: "C:\User\USER\AppData\Roaming\Opera\Opera 12.XX". - IMPORTANT: Backup "accounts.ini".
- Change "accounts.ini" as follows (delete everything except):
- Run import module with mail ticked
- Restore "accounts.ini"
- Requirements according to this post
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