459255 - Sorting of several address books

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, defect)

Description

[juergen.gebhardt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Build Identifier: seamonkey 1.1.12 or thunderbird 2.0.0.16

Situation: E-Mail Account under Netscape 7.1 with several address books (at all 17). Sorting is alphabtical order i.e collected address book is the first adress book in the row and then starting from A for example to Z.

After installing seamonkey 1.1.12 (same happens with thunderbird 2.0.0.16) the sorting of all address books is lost and cannot be rebuild or changed in any matter. That means for example a address book name starting with letter E is on Top, address book starting with Z is somewhere else but not at the bottom of the row. Also the collected adress book (->abook.mab) is not any longer on top of the row it`s somewhere in the middle of all adress books.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. add several address books to an e-mail account under Netscape 7.1
2. On top of all adress books will be the one from abook.map -> collected adress book; all other books a sorted by alphabetical order
2. install seamonkey i.e. thunderbird and take the existing netscape profile 
3. open the e-mail client and look at the sorting of all adress books; it´s
different and can`t be rearranged.



Keep the complete sorting of all address books

Comment 1

[lenochod]

Will be view correctly, when export you Address book from Netscape and import to SeaMonkey?

Could you try and reproduce with SeaMonkey v2.0a1 ?

Comment 2

[juergen.gebhardt]

After deleting all existing address books beside the one for the collecting addresses (you cannot delete it) any new imported address book will be shown above the collected address book in alphabetical order. That means that collected addressbook will be always at the bottom of the address book view.

SeaMonkey V2.01a1 shows the view  n o t  correct. Same view happens as in TB 2.0.0.16 or seamonkey 1.1.12.

Comment 3

[lenochod]

It is very unlikely that SM v1.1.x will get such fixes.

Can you try and reproduce with SeaMonkey v2.0a2 or 2.0a3pre (not stable enough for everyone's daily use yet)?

Comment 4

[juergen.gebhardt]

Still having the same problem with seamonkey and thunderbird 2.0.0.19. The only workaround which worked is to export all address books, then delete all address books (with the exception of "collected" address book) and do a complete reimport of all adress books. Then all address books are arranged by alphabetical order with the exception of the address book "collected". This one is always shown at the end. But this is o.k.

Comment 5

[Pander]

Should this one also be reported for Thunderbird separately?

Especially since SOGo Connector can add a CardDAV address book, is it useful to be able to reorder address books, which also influences the order of suggested email address when composing a message.