539772 - Problem entering lists in address book

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 189895

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

Description

[Garth]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100104 SeaMonkey/2.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100104 SeaMonkey/2.0.2

I have a list set up.  I tried to add to it the names of two people with the same surname as one already on the list. They share the same physical address, phone number and email address, but I wanted them to be there as 3 separate entries.  The program just refused to do it.  A workround was to  set up a new special address book with all the needed addresses in it.  You cannot copy and paste addresses from the old book, though you can drag them, but that cancels them in the previous book.  It's not easy to set up a new list from all the addresses in the special address book and it's not easy to send an email from them, though it can be done by highlighting the addresses needed and clicking on Compose.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

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Mailing lists currently use the email address as key. Solution is requested in  Bug 271570.