388218 - Add To Address Book creates duplicate entry

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 45946

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Hendy Irawan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.4 (Ubuntu-feisty)
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.0 (20070326)

Adding an already added person by right clicking and "Add to Address Book", adds that e-mail address again instead of modifying an existing entry (with the EXACT same e-mail address).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open/preview a message.
2. Right click the sender name and click "Add to Address Book"
3. Close the address book and repeat step 2 as many times as you want
Actual Results:  
You'll have a bunch of address book entries with the same name AND same e-mail address. With EXACT capitalization. Pointless.

Expected Results:  
If e-mail address is the same as what already in the address book, an address book should be displayed to inform the user (to choose) whether he/she wants to modify/open the existing entry; or continue adding as new entry despite the duplication; or cancel.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Confirmed on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a7pre) Gecko/2007071503 Thunderbird/3.0a1pre ID:2007071503