Typing a contact group's name in a recipient field suggested the
individual members, and "send email to group" on the contacts page
filled the field with one chip per member - the group itself never
appeared anywhere.
The autocomplete now offers the group as a single entry (group icon
plus member count), and selecting it - like the contacts-page action -
inserts one chip named after the group that carries a snapshot of its
members. The chip expands into the deduplicated member addresses when
the message is sent or saved as a draft, mirroring how Outlook handles
distribution lists. Expansion happens where the outgoing address lists
are built, so validation and every plugin hook see real addresses.
Group chips survive the composer's string boundaries (draft data, dirty
compare, the contacts-page hand-off) as RFC 5322 group syntax
("Team: a@x, b@y;"). A bare colon reliably opens a group there because
display names containing a colon are always quoted. Typed text only
parses as a group when it carries at least one valid member, so stray
"Subject: hello" input stays a plain recipient.
RecipientSuggestion gains an optional group field; plugins that ignore
it keep working unchanged.
Adds a "Send email to group" action (To / Cc / Bcc) that opens the composer
pre-filled with the group's members in the chosen field, preserving each
member's display name. It is available both in the group context menu (between
"Edit Group" and "Delete") and in the group detail panel's header (shown when
the group has at least one member with an email). The single-contact "Send
email" button in the contact detail panel uses the same path.
Routing is internal, not via mailto:. Contacts is its own route and the composer
lives in the mail route, so the handoff stashes the recipients
(savePendingMailto) and does a client-side router.push("/"); the main route's
existing consumePendingMailto effect opens the composer in the current account.
This avoids the OS mailto handler (which could open a different mail app) and
the protocol round-trip's full-page reload, which dropped the in-memory
per-account JMAP clients of a multi-account session (a logout).
- contacts/page.tsx: openComposeInApp(recipients, field) shared helper;
handleComposeGroupFromSidebar (deduped "Name <email>" members, empty -> toast)
and handleComposeContact; wired to the sidebar, group detail, contact detail.
- contact-group-detail.tsx: onComposeGroup(field) prop + To/Cc/Bcc header control
(shown when the group has emailable members).
- contacts-sidebar.tsx: onComposeGroup(groupId, field) prop + "Send email to
group" submenu between Edit and Delete.
- contact-detail.tsx: onCompose() prop; the button is no longer a mailto: link.
- mailto.ts: recipient splitter is quote-aware (reuses the composer's
splitRecipients) so a comma in a display name survives — still useful for real
OS mailto: links.
- i18n: contacts.groups.send_email{,_to,_cc,_bcc} and no_member_emails across all
locales.
Display names round-trip via formatRecipient -> parseRecipientList.
Clicking an email address in the viewer already shows a contact detail
sidebar. An "Edit" button now appears there (for known contacts) that
navigates directly to the contact edit form via the existing URL-param
intent system (?contactId=…&view=edit), removing the need to open the
Contacts page manually and search for the contact.
Linus Rath