204654 - duplicate addresses in address book should be cleaned up

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 45946

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

Description

[John T]

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About half of the addresses in my personal address book (collected from outgoing
mail) are raw addresses without names. Addresses without names are collected
when a person clicks on a mailto: link, and there may be other occasions.
Typically, there are a number of duplicate addresses in the file, some with
names and some without. Duplicate entries can also occur because the same
address is entered one time with lowercase chars and with uppercase chars, or
mixed-case. If the spec for email addresses is case-insensitive, why not add a
bit of code to make email addresses lowercase in the address book, or ignore the
case in comparing a possibly new address to existing ones? Also, sometimes names
are entered in quotes, and if the same name is entered without quotes, it
appears as a new entry. Would it be possible to ignore quote marks in comparing
names to enter in the address book? Quotes are also a nuisance in autocompletion
of address during composition.

Entries with the same email address but different names should be left intact,
IMHO. 



Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 45946 ***

Comment 2

[Vedran Miletic]

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