Duplicate entries in address book

[Brian]

Binary package hint: thunderbird

I am getting multiple address entries in Thunderbird. By default, my school's e-mail service puts display names in ALL CAPS, while many users opt to change display names to use proper grammar. This is automatically entered into Thunderbird's address book as 2 separate entries. So, for example, John Doe sends an e-mail from work with the display name "John Doe" and then from home using the display name "JOHN DOE". Both have the same e-mail address of <email address hidden>, but both are added as separate entries in Thunderbird.

A reasonable fix, I believe, would be to treat all letters as lowercase when determining if a contact already exists, so while JOHN DOE will (or may, at user's option) appear in as JOHN DOE, the address book will treat the name, as well as the name "John Doe", as "john doe" and recognize that the entry already exists. Unfortunately I do not know enough about the Thunderbird source code to make this modification so somebody else will have to do it.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: mozilla-thunderbird None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-thunderbird.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package

[Brian (lavagolemking)]

Also the same issue applies to e-mail addresses themselves. <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>, and <email address hidden> will each be filed under separate entries.