123484 - Can create address list with non-unique nickname for selected Address Book

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[Jeff Qiu]

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open the browser.
2.Go to Address Book.
3.Click 'File'->'New'->'Mailing List'.
4.Input List Nickname such as 'test', and other necessary item, then click OK.
5.Create another Mailing List, using the same Nickname'test', and other
necessary item, then click OK.

Expected Results:
Proper error message should be given,and the second Mailing List should not be
created.

Pls refer to the test case :
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/tests/sea-mn-addrb.html
Managing Address Books->B.Adding and Editing Lists ->2.Adding data to a New List 
  c.Enter data for a List Nickname 
   1.verify valid names work 
   2.verify invalid names (non-unique for selected Address Book) gives proper
error message

Comment 1

[Ninoschka Baca]

Buffy trunk build 2002-10-17: Mac 10.1.3
Reproduced, setting to New.

Marking nsbeta1 since this could cause confusion to those using nicknames for
mailing lists.

Comment 2

[jglick]

"List Name" does need to be unique and user will get an error msg when trying to
create a 2nd mailing list with an existing List Name. 

But Nickname does not need to be unique for Mailing Lists or for Address Book
card entries. Nickname is used to provide matches for autocomplete.  

Create two AB cards or a Mailing Lists with the same Nickname. Create a new msg
and type the nickname. Autocomplete offers both card entries/mailing lists as a
potential match. This is as expected. 4.x works this way as well.

Suggest marking bug as Wontfix.

Comment 3

[Samir Gehani]

Mail triage team: nsbeta1-

Comment 4

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

mass re-assign.

Comment 5

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Create two AB cards or a Mailing Lists with the same Nickname. Create a new msg
> and type the nickname. Autocomplete offers both card entries/mailing lists as a
> potential match. This is as expected. 4.x works this way as well.
> 
> Suggest marking bug as Wontfix.
> 

Discussed with Mnyromyr & others on IRC and agreed that this should be Wontfix.