Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: contacts Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:49:40 +0200 Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 2fAy0xqJ4FAlsBHjoKy/4A8VUSWP1WAE587s4ThwR9TjPHm215 Cancel-Lock: sha1:qfT4w3iX8Y2/Gbd2K/XBencmfk0= sha256:jVb5iwibjxKWEQf4BSfSmynn/Xnl+GEbN6f8ZM+Wsro= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:154395 On 2026-07-10 12:26, Theo wrote: > Carlos E. R. wrote: >> On 2026-07-09 19:02, Theo wrote: >> >>> I find K-9 will only use Android contacts, rather than picking those up from >>> recent emails, which is a bit annoying as I don't use them. >> >> Yes, this is what he told me. And I understand that it would not work >> with the Samsung app, had to install the google one. > > Does the user perhaps only have phone numbers in their contacts? In that > case I think K-9 won't have any email addresses to work with. Maybe you > needed the Google contacts app to sync email contacts from your gmail > account? ie this sounds like he's in the Google 'ecosystem' and is > complaining that the Samsung app isn't part of it. > > Personally I would never want to have any kind of list of contacts > automatically scraped from my emails on my phone, because it would be full > of noise and be a pain when I wanted to make phone calls. No, it is not a pain at all. The dialup app knows very well what kind of contacts to show. -- Cheers, Carlos E.R. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;