214775 - Option to store incoming mail addresses not present as stated in Mozilla help

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 202684

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

Description

[Jochen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

The Email Address Collection does not work as indicated in the help. In fact,
only addresses of *sent* messages can be collected. Test this in
Edit Preferences Mail & Newsgroup Addressing 
Mail & Newsgroups Preferences - Addressing

The help says there should be an option "incoming mail messages":
Addressing preferences allow you to control the settings for Mozilla Mail &
Newsgroups address books ...

By default, email addresses contained in outgoing messages are stored as soon as
you click Send. If you choose "Incoming Mail Messages," Mail & Newsgroups stores
the sender's address in each message as soon as you open it.

By the way, if this feature starts working, then *junk* should be excluded from
the address collection. I also suggest an option to collect only addresses from
mails that contain the user in the To: field only.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to Edit Preferences
2. See Mail & Newsgroup Addressing
3. Look for the "Incoming mails" option
Actual Results:  
The option is not present as indicated in the help.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

It's been removed. See bug 175503 comment 1 for how to use it via a hidden pref
The help file should probably be rewritten to reflect the current functionality.

Comment 2

[Joe Infla]

duping to bug fixing help entry

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 202684 ***