I know you're still in heavy development and probably don't want to consider adding an addressbook feature to this module yet. So, I'm really just asking for a little advice. I've got this module working properly now, and well I love it. The only thing missing from my site is the ability of offer an addressbook.

I'm happy to do this in combination with other modules. Do you have any ideas where I should start?

I thought about creating my own node type as a contact details form. These could then be sorted through views to form an addressbook etc., but the missing link is how the user would click on an email address in a node like this so that the address would suddenly appear in an email compose form... or they start typing a name or address in the 'to', 'cc' or 'bcc' and drupal would selects a contact from these node types.

I know you have a permission to view all users addresses, but I don't want my users to have that. I only want them to have access to their own contacts, which will provide the email address to a compose email screen.

Does anyone have any ideas how I could go about setting this up?

Thanks again, this really is an awesome module!

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cockers commented

Update - I've easily managed to make an address book with a new content type, CCK and views. In fact it's looking pretty good, the only problem I have is connecting the field produced from the Email module (https://drupal.org/project/email) to the 'To' field on the email compose form. Do you have any ideas how I could populate that field using this?

The email module provides a CCK field that offers a 'Mailto:' or 'Contact via form option'. If there is someway that I can get this to work then my problems should be solved... any ideas? Would the integration with the Email module be something that you would consider adding as a feature?

Thanks in advance!

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oadaeh commented
Version: 7.x-1.0-alpha1 » 7.x-1.x-dev
Category: support » feature
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cockers commented

Sorry for posting this in the wrong category. Is this something you'd consider integrating into the module?

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oadaeh commented

I am definitely interested in creating or allowing in some sense an addressbook or addressbook-like functionality. The biggest problem I see is that everyone will have their own ideas about how an addressbook should work, and that will mean lots of code to allow for many possibilities and flexibility.

The thing is that I will not be working on anything like this until the webmail functionality is complete, and that probably means not until the 7.x-2.x branch is fairly stable.

Of course, this is all in my "spare time," and monetary incentives /might/ encourage a different behavior/course of action. :^)

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cockers commented

Sure, that's understood completely. Would it be possible to send me an email via my contact form on this site with your email address? I'm not too sure what kind of budget we would have for this, but it's worth checking this option out.