Faster alias contacts w search and multiple select
I have one particular alias that has over 150 contacts and I need a faster way to find the contact I’m looking for to originate a new email with a reverse-alias. Search would be preferred.
I also need a way to quickly select several contacts at a time to start a new email thread instead of copy/paste multiple times.
Kai Rylan
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Proton User
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I also have several aliases with multiple contacts. Not 150, but even more than about 8-10 gets unwieldy even in a full screen desktop client.
While I know multiple asks in one request aren't ideal, these are integral into the general context of making e-mail alias contexts more manageable. Right now it is extremely frustrating to manage:
To that end I have several ideas and am sharing those ideas to facilitate community discussion.
- Default sort of alphabetical by name rather than order of creation. If I could choose to sort by both name or e-mail address, that would be even better.
- Better UI design. It looks pleasant at first glance, but it doesn't facilitate finding the information I need. I do see the value of the activity statistics surfaced... That said, I struggle to understand how they are valuable enough to represent 75% of the space usage for each contact "card". I don't know if others have a need to look at these in large quantities, but for my purposes a "kebab menu" option would work. Or possibly an on-hover. That said, I could see how users might want to look at several of those statistics at once, tabular format with a fixed header row are often used to display repetitive data. That said, there may be other more appealing options.
- I 100% agree that search would be great. Search is a very standard user experience feature at this point, and it feels very dated to have to use a scroll bar up and down to find information in 2026.
- As a note, it would also be nice to search from the main menu for a alias contact, rather than have to know exactly which alias it came in on and then search within a sub-menu for the contact -
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Je confirme que lorsque je crée un contact pour mon alias avec l app proton pass ,le contact est généré mais il se perd au milieu de mes 120 contacts donc il est très difficile de parcourir cette liste manuellement pour le retrouver et copier l adresse de transfert ou reverse alias. une possibilité de recherche dans les contact de l alias comme le fait simplelogin "enter to search for contact" devrait etre naturelle.