Merge different e-mail adresses of one entity in Corresondence layout

You mean based on the email addresses for a single contact in the Address Book?

I do see the value of this, but currently it is a non-trivial change. I'll keep it in mind, but in order to not really promise anything I'll mark it as “bluesky” (not for 1.x). The following are more or less useful thoughts on the subject.

A solution should also work for multiple addresses for both sender and recipient.

One workaround could be to base the correspondence view on name instead of on email address, but it is also my experience that people vary the name they use and not just the email address... And of course some times people do have identical names (although that may be a minor problem in practice).

Taking this one step further, the match could be on either name or email address. This would probably find all communication in most cases (and maybe a bit more).

It is possible to experiment with this yourself using a custom layout as described here: http://blog.freron.com/2010/widescreen-layout/. You should then locate and copy the layout named correspondence.plist and look for and change the value of the following key:

transformation = "$ALL_MESSAGES.filter((from.address = $mainOutline.from.address and #recipient.address = $mainOutline.#recipient.address) or (from.address = $mainOutline.#recipient.address and #recipient.address = $mainOutline.from.address))";

You could change it to the following to match on name:

transformation = "$ALL_MESSAGES.filter((from.name = $mainOutline.from.name and #recipient.name = $mainOutline.#recipient.name) or (from.name = $mainOutline.#recipient.name and #recipient.name = $mainOutline.from.name))";

Or you could combine them.

(The format of layout files are subject to change, but probably not any time soon.)

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