318840 - duplicate address book entries if email address is specified with different case sensitivity

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 129393

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Peter Saint-Andre]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

If the same email address is specified with different case sensitivity (e.g., [e-mail] and [e-mail]), two entries will appear in the address book.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Send email to [e-mail]
2. Receive email from [e-mail]
3. Now you have two address book entries for Peter Saint-Andre

Actual Results:  
Got two address book entries.

Expected Results:  
Expected only one address book entry.

Comment 1

[Josh Birnbaum]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 129393 ***

Comment 2

[Merlin Cul Kirkpatrick]

To the best of my knowledge this bug still exists in the main code.  To get it
fixed please go to bug 129393 and click the vote button to raise its level of importance.