Closed Bug 237455 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

address book creates additional card in Collected Adresses when that person is already in other address book

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 58769

People

(Reporter: tfry2002, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040311 Firefox/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (20040207)

If you have the option to add email addresses to your address book automatically
upon receipt, Mozilla Thunderbird will create a new card in the address book,
even if that person is in your other Address Book.  I wanted to have TB collect
addresses for me that I could then put into my permanent Personal Address Book.
 What I found is that while TB will not create a new card if their address is
already in the Collected directory, it does not check other address books to
decide if the name is already there.  It would be better if TB did not create a
new card if that person's information is already in the system.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Allow TB to collect addresses of sent email (Tools->Options->Advanced->Check box)
2.Create card of a particular email address in another Address Book (i.e. if you
are saving email addresses in Collected Addresses, create the card in Personal
Address Book)
3.Send an email to the person that you have a card for in Personal Address Book


Actual Results:  
Without fail, if the person's card was in Personal Address Book, a new card
would be created in Collected Address Book.  Thus the person's address in both
books.

Expected Results:  
The program should, in my opinion, check to see if the email address is in
either address book before saving a new one.  When dealing with hundred of
addresses cards and wanting to put Collected Addresses into either a Personal
Address Book or a Work Address Book (and in my case a couple others) with all
other contact information it is good to not have duplicates.  That way I can
easily find a person.  By having it resave addresses that I already have in the
Personal Address Book, I have more clutter and people that I am not sure where
they are from.
see bug 58769 and Bug 126022

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58769 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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