170296 - Maillists in different address books can not have same name. "A Mailing List with that name already exists. Please choose a different name."

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Sean Gao]

Reproduce:
1. Create 2 address books, separately named "A" & "B";
2. Create a maillist named "M" in A;
3. Create a maillist named "M" in B.
The expected result is two maillists can both be created successfully, while in
fact the operation 3 will fail. IMHO, The reason is that the method
"mailListNameExists" will search in the whole address books space other than in
a scope defined by users.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

Also reported in bug 66117, resolved as dup of bug 44794.

Comment 2

[ABHIJEET BHATTACHARYA]

Attachment: patch which can be probable fix

Comment 3

[ABHIJEET BHATTACHARYA]

Attachment: V2

Comment 4

[ABHIJEET BHATTACHARYA]

sincere apologies for giving a patch which leads to ultimate confusion while
populating the maling list. The reason is the poupulate method searches each and
every address book and populates the mailing list. If you allow creation of two
or more mailing list with same name in different addressbooks it will lead to 
a confusion for populate method and you will end up sending your mail to a wrong
group.

Comment 5

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

I think the only way we could implement this at the moment is to provide some
form of scoping or indication as to where the address list comes from. We can't
easily stop all duplicates (consider shared/ldap address books), and I think
it'll take a while to implement correctly. Suggest we leave this bug open for
now and revisit later.

Comment 6

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Comment on attachment 178364 [details] [diff] [review]
patch which can be probable fix

Removing review requests as I don't think this is the right way to go around it
and we're not ready yet.

Comment 7

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Comment on attachment 178907 [details] [diff] [review]
V2

Sorry I don't think this is the right way to go around it (see previous
comments).

Comment 8

[Miles]

This becomes important particularly in light of the fact that sub-lists cannot be used; therefore, more lists in different AB's are needed.

This same difficulty exists in that if the PAB has a list, a list by that same name cannot be added to an AB.

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Still valid