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jfcg

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    jfcg reacted to deanishe in MailTo: Select multiple Contacts *and* Groups and compose in your favourite email app   
    It's a tricky problem with no obvious works-for-everyone solution.

    I deliberately allowed duplicates, as it's possible that someone might have assigned the same email address to multiple people, e.g. I might have both Andrew and Vero with info@alfredapp com as their email(s). (The workflow organises everything by email address.) Filtering duplicates by name is a non-starter (damn your eyes, John Smiths!), and filtering by email AND name would only work well if you're careful naming your contacts.

    I can think of a couple of ways it might be fixed in the workflow, but neither is ideal. Basically, the difficulty of spotting duplicates is why syncing accounts is so hard to do in the first place (and "Apple and Google can't do it. We'll have to call Dean." is not something anyone said ever.) Still, I guess a few dupes is okay in the workflow. It's not like it changes your address book.

    May I ask why you can't disable your Google Contacts on the Mac? I'm trying to figure out if it would be better to be able to ignore certain accounts (though I don't yet know if this is possible with the Contacts API) — which strikes me as a fairly clean solution — or whether I should try to implement some sort of duplicate filter (exclude duplicate emails or exclude duplicate email AND name).
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