604075 - multiple contacts when adding to mail list.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 85687

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Gustav Hartvigsson]

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There is a problem that produces copies of contact when adding contacts to a mailing list instead of making a "link" to the contact on the mailing list.

this makes it impossible to update a contact and have it updated in all lists.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a few contacts
2. create a mailing list and add the contacts to it
3. see duplicates of contacts in address book.

Actual Results:  
seeing duplicates

Expected Results:  
not seeing duplicates

I think that it would be helpfull if there was an ID on the contacts that you just use in to get the e-mail from the contacts.

IE:
when a contact entity is created it gets a primary key.
this key can be used by the mailing list to "get" the contacts information from the contacts entity.
IE:
Cantacts file:
<contact>
<key> 1 </key>
<name> fred </name>
<email> [e-mail] </email>
</contact>

Mailing list file:
<mailinglist>
<getkey>1</getkey>
<getkey>5</getkey>
<email> [e-mail] </email>
</mailinglist>


I do not know the internal structure of Thunder bird so I put the DB in xml-ish code to demonstrate what I would like.