272994 - When I move a whole mailing list between address books, it gets destroyed.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 42879

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Fenix]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

When a distribution list is moved from one address book to another, it changes
its type from "mailing list" to "contact." All contacts contained inside are
therefore lost. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create Two Address books and an unempty mailing list inside one of them.
2. Move (or copy) the list with mouse to the other address book.

Actual Results:  
The list changes its type from "mailing list" to "contact." All contacts
contained inside are therefore lost.

Expected Results:  
The mailing list should have been copied to the address book with all contacts
contained.

Comment 1

[Doug Wright]

Confirming using 1.0 This really should get fixed in 1.1 IMO

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

I believe this is common code with the application suite, and therefore should
be fixed when bug 42879 is fixed (there is a patch on it's way via bug 35837),
therefore adding dependency and I'll check this bug again once the patch is in.

Comment 3

[Shaun]

This is a very large problem!  Mailing lists are destroyed when moving from one
address book to another in any format (LDIF, CSV, TSV).  You can confirm this
yourself by making an address book, making a mailing list, putting some contacts
in, exporting it, deleteing the address book then importing it back in.  

With Microsoft Outlook Express's WAB format, the mailing lists are kept when
transfering from MS Outlook Express to MS Outlook Express.  I think the problem
is that CSV,TSV needs an extra column indicating which lists the contact/email
address belongs to (if any).

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

*** Bug 291358 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Scott MacGregor]

not a stopper. I'll work with Mark to take fixes for the core bugs he cites if
patches become available.

Comment 6

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

We now have a core component for address book - duping to bug 42879 as that one 
is now in core.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 42879 ***