maemo.org Bugzilla – Bug 4976
Add option in modest to add/not add new contact when replying to mail
Last modified: 2010-03-15 20:55:53 UTC
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SOFTWARE VERSION: 5.2008.43-7 STEPS TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM: In Modest, select a mail by somebody who is not yet in your address book (ccontacts). Reply to this mail. EXPECTED OUTCOME: Sender of the original mail is added to contacts only if a respective (currently non-existent) checkbox is selected in Modest. User has the choice to not have Modest add new entries to the contact list. ACTUAL OUTCOME: New entry is always added, Modest doesn't offer a checkbox to influence this behavior. REPRODUCIBILITY: always OTHER COMMENTS: "Checkbox" in Modest could well be some other way of tweaking the client's behavior, like config files or GConf setting. It's important to control this as soon as you start actually *using* the contacts as such. You'll want to control what's in there, you'll want to avoid duplicates,... User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
how annoying is this! it even adds all of the cc names so contacts ends up full of junk.
Thunderbird has a feature where automatically added addresses can be added to a separate address book (e.g. called "Collected addresses"), which the user can periodically prune if they wish, or drag addresses into their main address book. I don't know if Modest supports multiple address books, or some other feature that could be used to separate automatically added addresses, e.g. tagging, though.
This has been fixed in package modest 3.2.3-1+0m5 which is part of the internal build version 2009.50-7 (Note that 2009 is the year and the number after is the week.) Any public update released with or after this build version will include the fix. Please verify that the new version fixes the bug by marking this bug report as VERIFIED after the public update has been released and if you have some time. Note that Nokia does not announce release dates of public updates in advance.
Thanks for reporting this as fixed, Andre. I searched git.maemo.org to see if I could find the changes relevant to this, which appear to be: https://git.maemo.org/projects/modest/gitweb?p=modest;a=commit;h=0e377cfc61f7e67a47e50096e1ad4a3dead53731 and https://git.maemo.org/projects/modest/gitweb?p=modest;a=commit;h=1480a316467e5c0ba6dda72b8c7dafe4ba46dbb0 (correct me if I'm wrong), which looks like a new tickbox has been added to control whether addresses are automatically added to the addressbook or not.
*** Bug 7428 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(Fix not included in today's 2.2009.51-1 update => updating Version field)
*** Bug 8259 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 8619 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
If this has been fixed in package modest 3.2.3-1+0m5 which is part of the internal build version 2009.50-7, why is it still present in the released build 2.2009.51-1?
This fix didn't go to the "2." release branch, so not in 2.2009.51-1; it should appear in a subsequent update.
*** Bug 8681 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I still get this behaviour in 3.2010.02-8 and according to comment #11 the fix should be included in the version after 2.2009-51. If fix still exists inside Nokia only please consider setting bugs to fixed with the version the fix was actually included in (like with all other software development), or you will continue to get comments like this one.
It's not in 3.2010.02-8 as it was a minor update. The PR1.2 update (really the next one) will include it.
Setting explicit PR1.2 milestone (so it's clearer in which public release the fix will be available to users). Sorry for the bugmail noise (you can filter on this message).