Closed
Bug 225585
Opened 21 years ago
Closed 21 years ago
email is not an unique identifier
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: benoit, Assigned: sspitzer)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Email is not an unique identifier in the address book. This leads to incorrect situations with several card corresponding to the same email, with just a different name. Duplicated cards are created via automatic Email Address Collection. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have an email in your address book 2. Receive an email with the email from your address book 3. Sometimes the email in creating another card with the same email Actual Results: 2 cards with the same email Expected Results: consider having already this email in the address book, based on an unique email identifier maybe use the name to complete a missing field on an existing card corresponding to an existing email - but definitively do not update an existing field
Can you say if this is related to differences in cases in the e-mail addresses? eg. JoeDoe@aol.com gets added even if you already have a joedoe@aol.com?
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Comment 2•21 years ago
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Yes the issue can be related to differences in case in the email address. But not only. There's another case where you can create duplicate card with the same email. If you already have a card with the email benoit@rigaut.com and the First Name "Benoit" associated (no any other data). If you send an email to "Benoit Rigaut <benoit@rigaut.com>" another card will be created with the same email and with First Name "Benoit", Last Name "Rigaut", and Display "Benoit Rigaut". Various issues are related to this, because any subtle changes to an email like first/last inversion "Rigaut Benoit", or case change "Benoit RIGAUT" leads to a duplicate entry in the address book. Another point is that you can decide manually to create a card with a right click on an email ("Add to Address Book" feature) and a card will be created even if another one already exists with the same email. Email unicity sould be preserve first for consistency of an address book. There should have a warning, or an automagic feed of new data to an existing card (though it's not obvious to decide what should be the conciliation algorithm to mix old and new data.)
Comment 3•21 years ago
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dup *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 45946 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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