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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Hocuri
2025-08-04 21:32:09 +02:00
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parent 8fe3ce5cab
commit 93241a4beb
10 changed files with 102 additions and 13 deletions

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@@ -1473,7 +1473,14 @@ impl CommandApi {
/// Add a single contact as a result of an explicit user action.
///
/// Returns contact id of the created or existing contact
/// This will always create or look up an address-contact,
/// i.e. a contact identified by an email address,
/// with all messages sent to and from this contact being unencrypted.
/// If the user just clicked on an email address,
/// you should first check [`Self::lookup_contact_id_by_addr`]/`lookupContactIdByAddr.`,
/// and only if there is no contact yet, call this function here.
///
/// Returns contact id of the created or existing contact.
async fn create_contact(
&self,
account_id: u32,
@@ -1623,9 +1630,19 @@ impl CommandApi {
Contact::get_encrinfo(&ctx, ContactId::new(contact_id)).await
}
/// Check if an e-mail address belongs to a known and unblocked contact.
/// Looks up a known and unblocked contact with a given e-mail address.
/// To get a list of all known and unblocked contacts, use contacts_get_contacts().
///
/// **POTENTIAL SECURITY ISSUE**: If there are multiple contacts with this address
/// (e.g. an address-contact and a key-contact),
/// this looks up the most recently seen contact,
/// i.e. which contact is returned depends on which contact last sent a message.
/// If the user just clicked on a mailto: link, then this is the best thing you can do.
/// But **DO NOT** internally represent contacts by their email address
/// and do not use this function to look them up;
/// otherwise this function will sometimes look up the wrong contact.
/// Instead, you should internally represent contacts by their ids.
///
/// To validate an e-mail address independently of the contact database
/// use check_email_validity().
async fn lookup_contact_id_by_addr(