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Bug 228861 - non-default contact folders are second-class citizens
non-default contact folders are second-class citizens
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Contacts
2.4.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal minor
: Future
Assigned To: Devashish Sharma
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-08-12 18:45 UTC by Dan Winship
Modified: 2013-09-13 00:48 UTC
See Also:
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Description Dan Winship 2002-08-12 18:45:50 UTC 
Various addressbook operations only consider the default contact folder.
(Actually, right now, they only consider the *local* contact folder, but
I'm about to fix that.)

Eg, if you right-click on an email address in a mail message, it will
only check your default contact folder to see if it exists.
Comment 1 Gerardo Marin 2004-02-03 02:17:56 UTC 
Still valid in 1.5, yay...
Comment 2 André Klapper 2005-01-12 17:24:22 UTC 
still valid in evolution-2.0.3.0.200501070910-0.snap.ximian.10.1.
i think this is more than just "minor" and should be targetted.
Comment 3 Srinivasa Ragavan 2005-08-24 06:07:20 UTC 
I didnt understand the bug. What needs to be done here?
Comment 4 André Klapper 2005-08-24 08:54:34 UTC 
srini: add a contact including an email address to a second or third addressbook
(not the primary, "Personal" one). make sure that contact is not included in the
primary addressbook.
now get an email including that email address and right-click on it to choose
"add sender to addressbook". you will not get a popup window informing you that
this contact already exists, like it is when the contact would be included in
the primary addressbook.

reopening, still valid in 2.3.7.
Comment 5 Dan Winship 2005-08-24 13:30:34 UTC 
basically, anything that uses e_book_new_default_addressbook() (or
e_book_new_system_addressbook()?) is probably wrong and needs to be made
generic
Comment 6 Srinivasa Ragavan 2005-08-24 14:26:19 UTC 
hmm got it. it should give a provision to add to other address books as well. :-)
Comment 7 André Klapper 2005-10-24 21:11:08 UTC 
also see bug 319620
Comment 8 Peter 2005-12-19 12:30:06 UTC 
Same problem with "Automatically create contacts in the address book when responding to mail". Now any automatic filling of address book is unusable...
You'll have a BIG unmanagable default address book. :(
Comment 9 André Klapper 2006-01-10 11:30:47 UTC 
also see bug 326409
Comment 10 Devashish Sharma 2006-01-23 12:01:18 UTC 
Fix committed to cvs head.
Added a source-selector to contact quick add so that you can select the addressbook where you want to add a particular contact.