Contacts
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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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