Contacts and the button near the "to:" field are NOT synchronized

I see the same error; conctacs appear in the contacts list, but not when sending mail, and autocomplete doesn't work either. This only seems to be happening for my private adressbook, automatic contacs appear to stay in sync.

Thanks for your bug report. Which version of Ubuntu and evolution do you use? Which architecture is that? Can you start evolution from the terminal and check for any output there? Can you run
  CAMEL_DEBUG=all evolution 2&> log
and attach that log to the bug report?

I can't speak for Vincenzo, but I use Dapper on i386, Evolution 2.6.1

Terminal Output is:

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CalDAV Eplugin starting up ...

(evolution-2.6:11673): evolution-mail-WARNING **: ignored this junk plugin: not enabled or we have already loaded one

(evolution-2.6:11673): e-utils-WARNING **: Plugin 'Spamassassin-Plugin' failed to load hook 'org.gnome.evolution.mail.junk:1.0'
----

Doing that CAMEL_DEBUG line will crash Evolution on startup, the log it wrote till then is exactly the same as the output above.

The CAMEL_DEBUG is for mailer communication, nothing useful for that bug Daniel

Do you have them in sync after restarting the application?

Unfortunately I've stopped using ubuntu due to many minor bugs that, all together, made my laptop not usable. However I can still say that no, restarting evolution did not put them in sync.

Some of them recently started appearing after a restart, but others are still missing after restarting it several times.

Using Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake, Evolution 2.6.1 on with K7 kernel.
I too have the same problem I added the contacts using rightclick on the address in an E-Mail and adding them to the contacts.

None of them appear in the recipients selector, when composing a new mail.

I just found something very interesting, if the E-Mail type is set to "Other" which it is when you add the address using an existing mail, it won't show up, if however you change it to "Work" it will appear.
I think this should get you close to a bug fix ;).

Something else:
Once a contact has been changed from "Other" to e.g. "Home" is saved, and afterwards again edited and changed back to "Other". It wil display, although the address type is now "Other".
Strange.

I have experencied the same problem. It looks like the composer's contacts are cached or something and it is not updated as soon as you add a contact. Restarting evolution usually doesn't solve the problem. The only thing that works for sure is logging out and in again.

Loe: what do you call "E-Mail type"? what setting is that?
Santiago: does evolution --force-shutdown and restarting evolution then makes the changes be applied?

Sebastien, yes, if I do evolution --force-shutdown the changes show up. Otherwise the contact doesn't even show up in evolution but it shows that the contact is already there if I try to add it again.

By the way, I tried today to enter a contact by using the "New contact" button and it works as expected. All the other times I used to right click over a contact in an email to add it. I think that's where the problem is.

Let me know if there is anything else I can do.

Contacts being listed after restart is a known dapper bug and fixed on edgy. Is anybody getting that bug on edgy?

Sebastien, I'm pretty sure I did have this problem in edgy but I cannot guarantee it. Since I added a second adressbook to evolution, this problem didn't show up anymore. I don't know if this is just a coincidence or an updated package.

Ok I created a new user, and everything works as expected so there must have been an update fixing the problem.

Do you still get that problem with your standard user or is that fixed for that one as well?

I don't have any problem with my standard user either, however "any category" is not selected by default in the dialog opened using the "button near the TO: field". This corresponds to having a restriction enabled by default on data, obviously it has to be changed so that "any category" is the default choice.

that bug is slightly confusing now, could you summarize the problem you are still having?

Nothing at all, the bug is fixed for me. The category "any category" _is_ selected by default, and this is not the first time I find a bug and then it starts to "work for me" after a while. Thank you for fixing the problem in any case.

no reply, thank you for following up on the bug, marking fixed then