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authorDanilo M. <danix@danix.xyz>2026-09-24 15:27:12 +0200
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docs: close backlog item 204, contact completion shipped
Its section moves to the closed-items file with the execution record, and the status row points there. The reconcile against the user's notes found every open note line already covered by an existing item. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -10678,3 +10678,102 @@ qtmaildir's own Delete strips `inbox` (item 168).
green with a spam-folder case and a two-file (spam + inbox) case; after the
cleanup, `notmuch search --output=files 'tag:inbox' | grep -i '/spam/'` is
empty.
+
+## 204. No recipient completion, in the composer or the query bar
+
+**Observed (user, 2026-09-18, settling item 72):** "as it is today I don't have
+a way of accepting an invitation, I have to copy-paste the addresses for any new
+email from somewhere."
+
+**Cause (verified in the code).** The composer's recipient fields are plain
+`QLineEdit`s with no completer of any kind, and nothing in `src/` reads a
+contact store: `grep` finds no vcard, vCard or CardDAV anywhere. Completion
+exists in this application only for tags (`QueryCompleter`, `TagDialog`).
+
+**The data is on disk and verified, 2026-09-18.** 117 `.vcf` files under
+`~/.local/share/vdirsyncer/contacts/`, written by the `contacts` pair in
+`~/.config/vdirsyncer/config`. They are vCard **3.0**, one card per file, each
+carrying `UID`, `FN`, `N`, `EMAIL` and frequently a base64 `PHOTO`.
+
+**Two traps in the layout.** The pair writes to
+`~/.local/share/vdirsyncer/contacts/`, NOT `~/.local/share/contacts/`, which is
+an Akonadi directory holding only a README warning against touching it: the
+obvious path reads the wrong store. And the vdirsyncer config is per-machine
+and holds a `password.fetch` command, so the path is a key in `qtmaildir.conf`
+(as `notmuch_config` is) and nothing about that file is read here.
+
+**libical does NOT parse these.** libical 3.0.20 is installed with headers and
+a `libical.pc`, but its vCard support landed in 4.0; `libicalvcal` is the old
+vCalendar-1.0 converter, not a vCard parser. So this is a hand parse, which is
+proportionate for four fields, and the reason to keep it in a namespace of free
+functions over values: it must be testable against fixture files without a
+widget, as `MimeParser` is.
+
+**What the parse must handle, and it is the whole risk.** vCard 3.0 FOLDS long
+lines: a continuation begins with a space or tab and the fold can land anywhere,
+including inside a base64 `PHOTO` and inside an address. Unfolding comes before
+any field split. `EMAIL` carries parameters before the colon
+(`EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET,PREF:...`), a card may carry SEVERAL, and `N` is
+semicolon-structured with backslash escapes. A card with no `EMAIL` is not an
+error and simply does not complete.
+
+**Completion mechanics are already decided by this repository's own scars.** A
+recipient field holds MORE THAN ONE value, so `QLineEdit::setCompleter()` is
+wrong for exactly the reason `CLAUDE.md` records twice: attach with
+`QCompleter::setWidget()`, drive `setCompletionPrefix()` from `textEdited`, and
+replace the token under the cursor on `activated`. A test must TYPE the keys;
+`setText()` does not drive a completer at all and passes against the bug.
+
+**Constraints.** Read-only: this item writes no vcard (that is 205). A card is
+untrusted input in the ordinary sense, since it arrives from a DAV server, so a
+`FN` reaching a label is plain text like every header value
+(`MessageDetailsDialog`'s rule). Personal data: fixtures are written by hand
+with example.org addresses, never copied from the real store.
+
+**The query bar gets the same candidates**, widened into this item by the user
+on 2026-09-18: "it's nice to be able to search by address from my known
+contacts." `QueryCompleter` completes `from:` and `to:` with NOTHING today, and
+`querycompleter.cpp:652-656` says why: "addresses need an enumerator libnotmuch
+does not expose". The vcards ARE that enumerator, so that comment is half wrong
+the moment the store exists and must be corrected rather than left to mislead.
+
+The seam is already the right shape and needs no new mechanism. `setTags()` is
+fed by the worker's `allTagsReady` and replaces the tag candidates; contacts get
+the same treatment, and `entriesFor()` grows a `from:`/`to:` branch beside the
+`path:` one. Two differences from the composer half, and they are why this is
+not literally the same code: the query bar completes ONE token in notmuch's
+grammar, so it inserts a bare address rather than `Name <addr>`, and the value
+goes through `SearchTerm::quote()` like everything else this application puts in
+a query, since a display name can hold a space and a quote.
+
+**Executed 2026-09-18 to 2026-09-24 via subagent-driven-development**: seven
+signed commits, `3303c78..7454096`. `ContactStore` parses the vCard 3.0
+directory, `[general] contacts_dir` locates it (tilde-expanded), the composer's
+To/Cc/Bcc and the query bar's `from:`/`to:` complete from one shared
+`QCompleter` attached with `setWidget()`, and `MainWindow` loads the store once
+and feeds both consumers. Four controller rulings departed from the plan: a
+`setContacts()` setter instead of a fifth constructor parameter, the accessor
+named `contactsDir()`, flat vCard fixtures, and tilde expansion for
+`contacts_dir`. One genuine plan gap: `splitRecipients()` was made quote-aware,
+since the plan's quoted-display-name insertion would otherwise be cut in half
+by the splitter on the way to `OutgoingMessage`. The final whole-branch review
+found one Important issue, untrusted `FN` control characters and RFC 5322
+specials reaching the recipient header, fixed in 7454096 by stripping control
+characters and always quoting a non-empty name; re-reviewed clean. Hand-tested
+and confirmed working by the user. One residual, not a defect in this work: the
+vCard `EMAIL` value reaches the header unsanitised (an embedded `\r`); GMime
+fails the send closed on it, so it is a one-line `ContactStore` follow-up if it
+is ever hit in practice, not filed as its own item.
+
+**No brainstorm was needed for this item, and the plan was written**:
+`plans/2026-09-18-contact-completion.md`, six tasks. Four decisions were taken
+with the user on 2026-09-18 and were not open questions:
+
+1. The path is a `[general]` key, defaulting to
+ `~/.local/share/vdirsyncer/contacts/`. Empty means the feature is off, with
+ no error: a machine with no vdir is the ordinary case for anyone else.
+2. The store loads once, whole, when it is first needed. 117 files is nothing,
+ and a watcher is speculative until a measurement says otherwise.
+3. A candidate matches on the name AND the address, and the composer inserts
+ `Name <addr>`.
+4. `FN` and every `EMAIL`; `PHOTO`, `ADR` and `TEL` are ignored entirely.