327117 - Adding an address card to address list creates a new address card

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 134590

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Christoph Hess]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Thunderbird/1.5.0.1

I think it is a similiar problem in #254248.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a address list
2. Drag & Drop or add a contact to the list

Actual Results:  
a) In the list the contact lost all data except the "displayed name".
b) A second card is created in the address book where you inserted from with lost data.
c) POSSIBLE DATA LOSS: If you delete the newly created address in the address book (not in the list!) the contact in the list also will be deleted!

Expected Results:  
No new contact card should be created (the contact is already there). Only the contact should be displayed in the address list.

I don't know what Thunderbird does in the background. Are the addresses stored in a database or something like that? So it should not be such a problem to make a link from the list to address book a no new cards or something like that?! Or create a new table for each contact list with addresses that are no where shown except in the list view (OK I know, when you change data it must be changed in the list, too etc.). I think this feature needs a totally rewrite.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

This is a duplicate of bug 85687. The deletion of an entry without notification is bug 160965.

Currently it is required that the item in a mailing list is also in the parent address book.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 85687 ***

Comment 2

[Christoph Hess]

This is not a duplicate bug. The other people want mailing lists in an address book and the contact should only appear in the mailing list, but not to appear in the address book itself. This is weird... ;-)

But this bug is somewhat different. You wrote: "Currently it is required that the item in a mailing list is also in the parent
address book." OK, so: All the contacts EXIST already in the address book. Everything I expect is: that the existing contacts from the address book are grouped in a mailing list (like a pointer). But here the bug is: the mailing list duplicates by itself the contacts and so "spams" the address book with double contacts. If you have two mailing lists in one address book and after the mailing list creates a double contact. So add contact to mail-list 1 -> creates duplicate in address book, add same contact (not the duplicate) to mail-list 2 -> no duplicate is created!

Comment 3

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> This is not a duplicate bug. The other people want mailing lists in an address
> book and the contact should only appear in the mailing list, but not to appear
> in the address book itself. This is weird... ;-)

Ok, my fault I misunderstood the initial report.

> If you have two mailing lists in one address book and after
> the mailing list creates a double contact. So add contact to mail-list 1 ->
> creates duplicate in address book, add same contact (not the duplicate) to
> mail-list 2 -> no duplicate is created!

Unless we have regressed (I'm not able to check for another day or so), then this sounds similar to bug 134590. See especially Bug 134590 comment 14.

Comment 4

[Christoph Hess]

After reproducing the bug in the morning a few times (10x with restart of thunderbird and windows), the bug "vanished" in the evening. Now I can add and drag&drop contacts to the list without duplicates being created?!?! What happened?! I just can't believe it... ?:-o

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 134590 ***