Tickets :: Comment on [#2011] Add Virtual Contact Lists

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Comment	>> I tend to think that it would be truly innovative to due away with > >> the whole Virtual tag and make folders and groups and other virtual > >> entities be transparent to the end user. What is a traditional IMAP > >> folder? Its generally a collection of associated messages in a > >> folder (or a single file) on a mail server. Does a user know that? > >> Nope - they just see a representation of that. So blur the whole > >> concept of folder - move it away from mapping physical units on a > >> mail server, to logical grouping of messages - there's no need to > >> draw attention to the fact that one is virtual and another is not. > > > > Except that they are different to the user. Unless you do away with > non-search-based address books (or folders) entirely, you have two > classes of containers - ones that magically find things, and ones > that you can actually put things _into_. > > > > UI components like Add show non-virtual addressbooks; it's > meaningless to add a contact to a virtual contact list. Same for move > to, remove from this list, etc. So you have to make a distinction to > the user, no?
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