GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 319468
add address to existing contact
Last modified: 2006-03-26 01:33:11 UTC
Version details: 2.4.1 Distribution/Version: Ubuntu 5.10 I received a message containing a friend's e-mail address. I already had this person in my contacts, but was missing his e-mail address. I right clicked on the address in the message body and selected the only relevant menu item, Add to Addressbook. (Why it's written as one word is probably also a bug). The Contact Quick-Add dialog appeared, asking for a Full Name. I provided my friend's full name, exactly as it appeared in the Full Name field for his existing entry. I got a Duplicate Contact Detected dialog box showing me that the Email field for the existing and the new contacts differed, with the only two options being to Cancel (and not store the new e-mail address anywhere) and Add (and create a duplicate contact!). It should instead try to add this e-mail address to the existing contact.
Bug 270184 is somewhat similar, but in this case the full names were identical, and that bug implies the behavior seen is because the full names were not identical.
If I have a contact with name "sushma rai" (without e-mail id) and from the mail From address I try to add contact "Sushma Rai <rsushma@novell.com>", I get a merge contact dialog, using which i can either create a new contact "Sushma Rai" with e-mail id "rsushma@novell.com" or I can add e-mail id "rsushma@novell.com" to existing contact "sushma rai". I am not seeing the behavior you have explained. Am I missing something?
Are you clicking on the From address in the header? I am clicking on an address in the message body. Somebody sent me a message with somebody else's address in the body.
I can confirm this. This indeed is not related to bug 270184, which is about smart, fuzzy matching. This bug actually is a duplicate of bug 211082, which falsely was marked as a duplicate of bug 270184. *sigh* More details soon in bug 211082. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 211082 ***