Closed Bug 433822 Opened 16 years ago Closed 16 years ago

auto-add to addressbook generates duplicate cards

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Address Book
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 58769

People

(Reporter: mozilla.org, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.14 (20080421) and version 3.0a1 (2008050715)

Lets say you have two addressbooks: Personal Address Book and Work and lets assume that "automatically add addresses to Personal Address Book" is checked.

Then if you have a card "Joe Bloggs <joe@example.com>" in Work, and send an email to Joe, the auto-add feature generates a second card for Joe in Personal Address Book.

This is wrong - the auto-add feature shouldn't be generating cards for addresses that have been auto-completed because it:
- serves no purpose
  ==> there is already a card for Joe in an addressbook
- undermines the users' decision to partition their cards by addressbook
  ==> Joe belongs in Work, not Personal Address Book
- creates a maintenance problem 
  ==> where to update Joe?  Work?  Personal Address Book?

Reproducible: Always
Flags: wanted-thunderbird3?
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Flags: wanted-thunderbird3?
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