GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 239658
when adding a contact email from an email message, email not merged correctly
Last modified: 2005-11-15 02:22:21 UTC
Please fill in this template when reporting a bug, unless you know what you are doing. Description of Problem: Let's say I have a contact already for John Doe with email address john.doe@domain.com. Then John Doe emails me with his new address. But, he does not set the name in the email field, so all I have is the john.doe@newdomain.com. I right click on this email address and say "Add To Contacts." A dialog pops up and I enter in John Doe into the "Full Name" field and click OK. At this point, Evolution *should* say "Would you like to add this address to your already existing contant?". Instead, it happily creates a new contact. Now I have two contact for the same person -- with two different email addresses. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. create a contact named John Doe with email address john.doe@domain.com 2. get an email from john.doe@newdomain.com (*without* a name set) - From should be "From: john.doe@newdomain.com" - *not* "From: John Doe <john.doe@newdomain.com>" 3. right click on address and say "Add to Contacts" 4. type in John Doe into the new dialogs "Full Name" field 5. click on OK. Actual Results: creates a brand new contact name John Doe with the new email Expected Results: should ask to merge new email into old contact How often does this happen? every time Additional Information:
still having two contacts for the same person in evo1.4.4-54.
*** bug 242432 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
It now warns you, but doesn't give you 'merge' or 'replace' options, which it should. Probably needs a touch of design love/thought to figure out what should be implemented, so cc'ing the group.
subset of bug 257790 as discussed on irc. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 257790 ***