222945 - Adding e-mail address to mailing list in imported address book corrupts address cards

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

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

Description

[André Cheung Tam He]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

Trying to add e-mail address to mailing list corrupts cards in that mailing list.
The following fields in contact card are blanked out:
first, last, display and nickname.

The e-mail address is changed to the first three letters of mailing list.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Import address book (export from NS 4.79)
2. Enter e-mail address in existing mailing list of imported address book

Actual Results:  
The 'old' cards in the mailing list are corrupted:
First, last, display, e-mail (see details)

Expected Results:  
Added the e-mail address without corrupting the other cards

Comment 1

[André Cheung Tam He]

Forgot to mention that this bug is alway reproducible with certain address books
not all of them.
The address books in question have cards in which the first name and nickname
alway start with the same three letters: OMV (to indicate that they belong to a
certain group).

This was a choice of the user (which is not me).
I recommended that she use organisation or department fields instead for future
cards.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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