286734 - Address Book is broken.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 45946

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Rene Rask]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050302 Firefox/1.0.1 Fedora/1.0.1-1.3.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050302 Firefox/1.0.1 Fedora/1.0.1-1.3.2

This is Thunderbird release 1.0

Please fix the AddressBook:
- When adding an email list called eg. "test, list" AddressBook breaks.
- Entries often have duplicates.
- Email entries are often invalid.
- Entries can contain characters that make the entry invalid as an email.
- "Add to Address book" allows invalid entries to be added.
- Emails are often part of the "Display" name alogn with one or two copies of
the intended "Display" name


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
This is just for the "comma in email list name" bug.
When adding an email list called eg. "test, list" TB breaks in the following places:
1. It is impossible to send email to people on the list.
Because the list is entered in the email to: line as: "test, list <test, list>"
(without the quotes)

2. The address book now has the following added entries (one on each line)
---------
list
"list>"
test
test, list
---------


Actual Results:  
Messed up, invalid, incorrect, broken entries


Expected Results:  
Correct, non-duplicate, valid entries


AddressBook doesn't check the strings it passes around in any sensibly way,
which in turn requires the user to be an expert in email syntax rules to be able
to use the address book.

Address Book simple sucks. I'm sorry, there just isn't any other way to put this.

I'm setting this as a Major bug since the AddressBook is so broken that it is
pratically useless to any non-nerds.

(Try explaining to an non-nerd which of the 5 similar or identical entries in
AddressBook they should use because it is the only valid one.)

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Sorry I'm resolving this as duplicate of bug 45946.

In future please do not report more than one bug per bug entry, and check for
duplicates first. Otherwise the time we could spend fixing, we are spending
sorting out duplicates.

Please read the bug reporting guidelines for more information
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/bug-writing-guidelines.html

The other duplicates that I've found so far are as follows:
- bug 284769 is probably the comma problem
- bug 134590 Duplicated Addresses, possibly bug 284783, Bug 45946 and bug 278323
all about slightly different areas.
- Bug 255980 cards taking invalid entries

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