GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 319620
Automatic contacts create new contact when syncing with buddy list
Last modified: 2006-01-23 14:27:50 UTC
Distribution/Version: Ubuntu Breezy There's a flaw in the automatic contacts plugin: I have two contact folders: a personal group and a replied group. The automatic contacts on reply are made in the personal group. However, when using the sync with buddy list feature, it creates a lot of contacts in the replied group, even though I have those people in my personal contact group. Expected behaviour: If Evolution finds a contact, in another addressbook than the one selected in the BBDB settings, with the given IM handle, it should update that contact, instead of making a second contact for the same person in the other addressbook. I use this setup because I only sync the personal contacts to my cellphone, not the autocreated-on-reply ones.
also see bug 228861
Confirming the bug.
You can now select different addressbooks for automatic contacts and gaim buddies. You can select your replied group for Automatic contacts and Personal group for syncing with gaim. So, your autocreated-on-reply contacts are in one addressbook and gaim contacts in a different addressbook. The patch has been committed to cvs. Closing this as fixed.
Hey. May be I misunderstood and then I'll have to open another bug, but I think possibility to customize in what addressbook "auto" put contacts things is very usefull but this is not this bug! The problem as I see it (please look at "Expected behaviour" in OP) is the following. I have addressbook "gaim" the contents of which are in "sync" with gaim. If I move contact "Masha" from "gaim" to another (fex, call it "Personal"). What will happen on next gaim "sync"? Current behaviour is to add "Masha" in "gaim" again. That is bad, as I already have "Masha" in "Personal", and I want "Masha" to be "Personal" contact (since I move her there) :)! The solution (expanding a bit OP) is on every "sync" evolution should do: 1. search in all address books (or in customizable set of addressbooks). 2. Found all similar contacts in other address books. 3. Give us opportunity to a) incremetal merge, b) update or forgive about this contact (untill it will be updated in gaim) So, please, reopen this bug! :)