166552 - mail should ignore duplicated recipient addresses when sending from address books

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 134256

(MailNews Core :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[Calum Mackay]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020722
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020722

When sending an email to multiple lists from the personal address book, if a
recipient is included in more than one list mozilla should only add them to the
recipient list *once*.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Add a particular recipient to more than one list.
2.Send an email to > 1 of the lists this recipient is on
3.

Actual Results:  
Recipient appears multiple times in recipient list.

Expected Results:  
Recipient should appear only once in recipient list.

Pretty minor problems, especially since most SMTP servers will only deliver the
message once anyway.

Comment 1

[Mitch]

Confirmed behavior with 20020904,though this is probably a candidate
for an RFE. Would be fairly easy to achieve programatically if we 
do a caseless match/uniq of the email address only discarding the GECOS
field.

Comment 2

[Calum Mackay]

Dave confirmed on Solaris/SPARC, he tells me.

Comment 3

[Dennis Daniels]

confirmed here
Mozilla 1.2b
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

Comment 4

[Dennis Daniels]

confirmed again in
Mozilla 1.2.1
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

duplicate email addresses can be added to address books 

Comment 5

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

mass re-assign.

Comment 6

[Jim]

I believe my problem is related to this one.
To create duplicate entries...
1) Add e-mail address to Address Book.  (ex.  Name "Johny", Email "[e-mail]") 
2) e-mail "Johny" and have "Johny" reply.
3) Suspose "Johny" replys and his profile is setup as
   "Smith, John"  [e-mail]
4) Reply to "Johny"'s reply.
5) A new Address book entry is added with Name "Smith, John", Email "[e-mail]")

I don't want a new entry for "[e-mail]".  I want to keep the one I have and
leave the name as "Johny".

Comment 7

[earthsound]

Regarding comment #4, this bug is about 1 email address, being in >1 mailing
list (i.e. mailing list A & B), being added multiple times as a recipient if
lists A & B are added to recipients. The bug of being able to add multiple email
addresses to address books is covered under other bugs, including bug 45946. :)

Comment 8

[Andy Buckley]

It would be nice if matching to remove duplicates also resolved equivalent
addresses into one, possibly with a dialog to decide which to use. This could be
done via the information from the user's Identities and any Additional Email
listed for recipients in the address book.

I sense there are lots of not-so-obvious behaviours which arise from this, but
thought I'd air the idea anyway :)

Comment 9

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

*** Bug 214768 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***