New or modified contacts sync incorrectly to Google "My Contacts"

[iMac]

Evolution was not properly assigning groups to new or modified contacts.

Specifically, new contacts would often land in "Other Contacts" instead of "My Contacts" when using the quick "Add to Contacts..." for email addresses.

Additionally existing Google "My Contacts" that were modified in Evolution, would find themselves in the Google "Personal" group online, which is Google's privacy group meaning those contacts would no longer show up on other contact-synced devices like Android phones and tablets without explicit search for the contact on those devices.

There is a patch upstream,

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=663324

This problem existed with 11.10 and now current 12.04 Beta.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: evolution 3.2.3-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.29-generic 3.2.9
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Mar 17 00:56:27 2012
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-13 (3 days ago)

[iMac (imac-netstatz)]

Upstream patch works to resolve this issue. I have tested it against 12.04 3.2.3 sources and it seems to be working well.

[iMac (imac-netstatz)]

Upstream has committed, and a rebaselined version for 3-2 is working fine against current sources. This effectively makes Google Contacts work, so it would be great to include with 12.04 pls.

Without it, when you add a Google contact two very confusing things happen
a) initially it does not appear in your Google MyContacts, but ends up in "Other Contacts"
b) if you modify a contact in Evolution, it gets moved to Google's Private folder, which prevents the contact from appearing in Gmail, Android Phones, iPads, Thunderbird or any other client/device using Google contacts

[iMac (imac-netstatz)]

This patch resolves the Google contact issues with Evolution 3.2.3 in 12.04 Beta

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[iMac (imac-netstatz)]

resolved and working great for me so far, already saved me time today. thanks MTL