34842 - Should save address book after import.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 116455

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, defect, P3)

Description

[James Rome]

I import an address book, and delete the others. But, if Netscape6 crashes
(which it always does) before I exit from Netscape, the new address book
configuration is not saved.

Furthermore, it does not seem to work well. I type the name in, and it does not
find it! Also, I have to open the address icon explicitly in order to use the
address book. In Netscape 4.7, it automatically looked in the book as you typed
in the e-mail address and completed it for you.

Comment 1

[edwin]

Grendel != Netscape 6

Comment 2

[edwin]

Reassigning to the owner of the Address Book in mozilla mailnews.

Comment 3

[edwin]

Hmm... somehow this bug got confirmed and I can't change it back to unconfirmed. 
Sorry about that, next time I'll try leaving it unconfirmed. I have no idea why 
it changed though.

Comment 4

[hangas]

Sending to Candice.

Comment 5

[lchiang]

I think the first issue (about configuration not saved) is a known bug.  

The second issue is that autocomplete is not functioning against other address 
books besides personal and collected.  ducarroz has a feature bug to implement 
the autocomplete feature

Comment 6

[selmer (gone)]

Can we verify that there's a bug here?  Otherwise it should be closed as 
invalid.

Comment 7

[scottputterman]

I'm changing the summary to what I think reflects the current bug.  The
autocomplete stuff has been fixed I think. moving to M18.  If this is a dup,
please mark it as such.  I couldn't see anything in chuang's bug list.

Comment 8

[James Rome]

I have been unable to get a build to run since the M14, so I have no way of 
testing things. The lastest build crashes on loading on my NT machine.

Comment 9

[James Rome]

The address book import now works in build 2000061311. But the functionality is 
useless.
1) Autocomplete does not work still
2) The address button in the create mail app does not find the e-mail addresses 
(the search button never becomes active).
3) There seems no way to click on an e-mail recipient's address and to get it 
into your PERSONAL (named) address book. The collected names is pretty useless 
if you are on a few mailing lists. It gets swamped with useless names.

Comment 10

[pmock]

Changing qa assign.

Comment 11

[fenella]

Assign it to myself.

Comment 12

[James Rome]

Right now, the address book is working better except for the following problems: 
1) There is no search a name window in the sddress book to find an entry. In a 
big address book, scolling the address list is jerky and diffisult. The old 
Netscape's interface was far superior. 2) Importing an LDIF from Netscape 4.76 
leaves out some of my long lists. Not sure if this is due to the list boing too 
long or because there is a limit on the number of lists (it is near the end of 
the alphabet). It is definitely in the LDIF file. I filed this as a separete bug 
and sent the ldif file, and that was the last I heard about it.... 3) Entering 
an address by clicking on a sender address works badly. The full name gets put 
in the name field. But when you enter the first or last name separately, the 
full name disappears. This is awkward if you cannot remember the name or how to 
spell it.

Comment 13

[scottputterman]

reassigning to cavin

Comment 14

[Ninoschka Baca]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 116455 ***

Comment 15

[Ninoschka Baca]

Verified Duplicate.