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feat: Also lookup key contacts in lookup_id_by_addr() (#7073)
If there is both a key and an address contact, return the most recently seen one.
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@@ -2089,9 +2089,19 @@ int dc_may_be_valid_addr (const char* addr);
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/**
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* Check if an e-mail address belongs to a known and unblocked contact.
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* Looks up a known and unblocked contact with a given e-mail address.
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* To get a list of all known and unblocked contacts, use dc_get_contacts().
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*
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* **POTENTIAL SECURITY ISSUE**: If there are multiple contacts with this address
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* (e.g. an address-contact and a key-contact),
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* this looks up the most recently seen contact,
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* i.e. which contact is returned depends on which contact last sent a message.
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* If the user just clicked on a mailto: link, then this is the best thing you can do.
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* But **DO NOT** internally represent contacts by their email address
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* and do not use this function to look them up;
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* otherwise this function will sometimes look up the wrong contact.
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* Instead, you should internally represent contacts by their ids.
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*
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* To validate an e-mail address independently of the contact database
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* use dc_may_be_valid_addr().
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*
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@@ -2113,6 +2123,13 @@ uint32_t dc_lookup_contact_id_by_addr (dc_context_t* context, const char*
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* To add a number of contacts, see dc_add_address_book() which is much faster for adding
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* a bunch of addresses.
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*
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* This will always create or look up an address-contact,
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* i.e. a contact identified by an email address,
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* with all messages sent to and from this contact being unencrypted.
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* If the user just clicked on an email address,
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* you should first check `lookup_contact_id_by_addr`,
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* and only if there is no contact yet, call this function here.
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*
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* May result in a #DC_EVENT_CONTACTS_CHANGED event.
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*
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* @memberof dc_context_t
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