3612 - RFE: order of members in a mailing list

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 32302

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, enhancement, P4)

Description

[dchaffin]

(This bug imported from BugSplat, Netscape's internal bugsystem.  It
was known there as bug #343713
http://scopus.netscape.com/bugsplat/show_bug.cgi?id=343713
Imported into Bugzilla on 03/10/99 18:56)

Created by Jason Blue ([e-mail]) on Monday, February 15, 1999 2:18:06 PM
PST
Additional Details :
When creating a new list in an address book,
Netscape ignores the order the list members were
added, and instead seems to use a random order.

Unfortunatelly, at times the order is critical;
for example, when sending mail to Senators and
their aides, politics dictates that the Senator
email addresses appear prior to the aides.

Please enter defect so that Netscape maintains, when
creating or modifying lists, the order specified
for the list members.

From: "Jason D. Blue" <[e-mail]>
Thu 3:13 PM
Subject:Re: Case 99183 & 99173
To: [e-mail]
Stuart,
FIRST, Regarding 99183: I believe I found the cause (or at least one of them).
Try the following:
1.Create a new address book under 4.5.
2.Create five new cards in this address book, for example:
a.a new card with a display name of "McArthur,Stuart" (without quotes).
b.Create another new card, this one with a display name of "Jason D. Blue".
c.Create new card for "John Public".
d.Create a new card for "Jamie Private"
e.Create the last new card, for "John Blanco Losada".
3.Create a new list.
4.Drag to the list the above cards, one at a time, in the following specific
order:
e (John Blanco Losada)
a (Jason D. Blue)
c (John Public)
b (McArthur,Stuart)
d (Jamie Private)
5.Click OK to save the list.
6.Open the list, you will now find the list is NOT in the order the cards
where dragged to the list. In fact, they are instead in the order the cards
were
added to the address book itself (a, b, c, d, e).

Please enter a defect report.

Comment 1

[stuartm]

This was reproduced locally.
When you go and add a list of users it places them in the order you put them in
the list but when you send the list it then puts them in the order in which
they
were entered in the addressbook.
2/24 dchaffin - have searched database and not found this defect in 4.5 so am
putting in a new defect on this problem.

Comment 2

[Marek Z. Jeziorek]

mass-setting TFV to 4.6 (may be changed or RESOLVED after a more detailed triage
or evaluation)

Comment 3

[Rodney Velasco]

RFE's will not be considered in the 4.x release.  Adding lchiang to Cc for
consideration into 5.0.

Comment 4

[lchiang]

Is this RFE possible to do?  Reassign to phil.  Pls reassign as needed.  (I
tried to reassign to [e-mail], but it's not a valid name.

Comment 5

[Phil Peterson]

Sounds like an RDF sorting issue. Reassigning to chuang for M7 since that's when
the backend for mailing lists is supposed to be done (according to
http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/milestones.html)

Comment 6

[chuang]

Move to M8

Comment 7

[chuang]

mailing list is post beta, move to M11.

Comment 8

[sol]

This does not need to be fixed in PR1

Comment 9

[chuang]

Move to Post Beta M14

Comment 10

[selmer (gone)]

Since this bug is marked P4, moving to M17.  If you disagree, please let me know.

Comment 11

[selmer (gone)]

Not critical for this release.  M20.

Comment 12

[lchiang]

This is a duplicate of another bug assigned to chuang about sorting items in a 
mailing list, I believe.

Comment 13

[chuang]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32302 ***

Comment 14

[Matt Perry]

Verified duplicate.