432192 - Thunderbird doesn't allow me to assign different address books to different email accounts

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 372443

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[stephen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080416 Fedora/2.0.0.14-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.12 (20080226) (Fedora 8 RPM)

Under Account Settings, I can have my Junk Mail be checked against an Address Book of my choosing per e-mail account; however, in Preferences, when I select my Address Book for actual use, it's globally.  Having all email accounts save and retrieve from the same store (if the accounts aren't related) is a very large hassle and can lead to mistakes.  Management becomes harder.  I would like the ability to have separate Address Books per user account or have the Address Book subdivided to self manage this feature.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Edit > Preferences > Addressing
2. Automatically add outgoing e-mail addresses to my ....
3.
Actual Results:  
Changing this option changes the Address Book for all e-mail accounts, not just the currently highlighted one in the Folder pane.

Expected Results:  
Having Preferences per e-mail account and changing one to a separate store doesn't affect the rest.

Comment 1

[rsx11m]

This is more an enhancement request than a bug report. Also, it is similar to bug 372443, specifically an apparent subset of it:

> The system would restrict itself to searching a limited subset of all address
> books so that emails normally associated with one account will not be suggested
> when composing an email in another account.

That bug suggests an "Order of preference of address books" per account or "exclusive address books", the latter being what is asked for here.

I don't quite understand what you mean with "have the Address Book subdivided to self manage this feature".

Comment 2

[ovidiu]

I'd say it's rather like bug 372443

these are of interest of bug 232486

Comment 3

[rsx11m]

If they are addressing the same issue, probably no need to keep both of them open. Duping this one as the other one is more comprehensive.