[Bug 58736] Adding a contact from an email address does not appear in contacts list until after restart

[David Kaplan]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: evolution

I have noticed that sometimes when a contact is added it does not
immediately appear in the contact list, but rather requires a full
evolution --force-shutdown and restart in order for the contact to
appear in the list of contacts.  One way that this always occurs is
adding a contact from an email.  The steps to reproduce this bug are:

1) Go to the Mail tab in evolution
2) Right click on the email address of someone who is not in your addressbook and select "Add to address book".
3) Select "OK" in the "Contact quick-add" dialogue.
4) Now go to the Contacts tab in evolution.
5) Try searching for the added contact in the list of contacts.  It will not appear.
6) Now go back to  the Mail tab and adding the contact again.  After selecting "OK" in the "Contact quick-add" dialogue, evolution will complain that you have a duplicate contact, so the contact is in the data server, but will not appear in your contacts list.  Also, email address completion will not work if you try writing to this contact.
7) The only way to force evolution to "see" this contact is to do an evolution --force-shutdown.

** Affects: evolution (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Untriaged
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Adding a contact from an email address does not appear in contacts list until after restart
https://launchpad.net/bugs/58736