258617 - Adding an entry from mail: should check for e-mail address doesn't already exist in address book

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 45946

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[Patrick Seher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

TB doesnt check duplicates Addressbook entries when adding a address from a mail
(eg: right mouseclick over a mail address -> add to addressbook).

A important feature, especially wished by many Outlook Express User. :-/

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a mail
2. right mouseclick on the sender's address
3. click: add to addressbook

Actual Results:  
TB add a new addressbook entry, but doesnt check for duplicates (a simple Name
check would be enough).

Expected Results:  
TB should ask you: 'Address is already in the addressbook, really add?" (sorry
for my english *g*)

Comment 1

[Mike Fedyk]

This is a dup of bug 45946.

Comment 2

[Bruce Davidson]

Bug 45956 is raised against the suite. This bug is only a duplicate of that one
if all the address book code is common. I'm not up on Thunderbird enough to know
if this is the case. If someone knows better, please dupe if appropriate.

Meanwhile confirming this bug.

Comment 3

[Bruce Davidson]

*** Bug 273002 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Mike Fedyk]

This should be back end code, and from what I have read, TB and the Suite share
that back end completely (not counting branching).

This should be marked as a dup.

Comment 5

[OstGote!]

*** Bug 272979 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[philiptdotcom]

If to-be-added address has different info (whatever Tb can check), perhaps ask
whether to UPDATE existing entry...?

Comment 7

[OstGote!]

Bug 45946 is now a Core bug, so duping.

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