388102 - Adding email addresses to Address Book even though Option/Composition/Addressing -Automatically Add, etc. is unchecked

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Bill Dinger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; SU 3.004; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.4 (20070604)

Thunderbird is adding the email addresses of people or orgs I'm responding to even though I have instructed it not to via the option listed in the summary above.  It even adds the email address if I click on a link in the email like, for example, an email from Netflix.  I have attempted checking then unchecking but that doesn't solve it. 

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Respond to an email from someone not in my address book.
2. Click on a link to a web page from some company or organization like Move-ON or Netflix.
3.
Actual Results:  
Thunderbird adds the email address of the person or company which I either responded to (or clicked a link) to my address book - unless they are not already in there.

Expected Results:  
Not added these people/companies/orgs since I have indicated I do not want the program to do that.

Extensions loaded:

Contacts Sidebar
Cute menus
Update Notifier

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

WFM on linux.

Comment 2

[Ron]

each time I send an email to an address not in my address book it adds tha address to the address book.  I'm using the gmail optional setup, if that makes a difference

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Could it be some extension that is causing this? WFM on tb2.0/windows too.

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Bill, are you still having problems with this?

If you are, please can you go to Options -> Advanced -> Config Editor, accept the prompt if there is one, then enter "mail.collect" in the filter, and confirm that the value of "mail.collect_email_address_outgoing" is false. Please also check that ties up with the check box of "Automatically Add...".

Comment 5

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESO INCO due to lack of response to prior comment.

If you believe this change was made in error, please respond with your reasons why, preferably by providing a response to the question in previous comment.