Closed Bug 23056 Opened 25 years ago Closed 25 years ago

Easy to misaddress an email address not in history abook

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect, P3)

x86
Windows 98
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: chriss, Assigned: bugzilla)

Details

Build ID: 2000010408 This should be fixed by beta. It's probably already on your radar, but I'm filing just in case it isn't. This is partially a UI bug and partially features not being fully implemented. If I type a name of someone who isn't in my history address book and hit send, I get no indication that the mail message doesn't have a proper address. For example: 1) In compose window type "Eric Krock" (assuming Erick Krock isn't in your abook) 2) Notice that after hitting return you see: "Eric Krock@netscape.com" 3) If you hit send, the email goes to eric@netscape.com and krock@netscape.com This is very easy to miss and results in misaddressed email. There needs to be some better indication that the email address was not found in the abook. The minimum case would be to place the first and last names on their own lines. Better would be to tell the user that then name was not found in the abook (or directory), etc.
QA Contact: lchiang → esther
Assignee: phil → ducarroz
Target Milestone: M14
Reassign to ducarroz. I think the beta stopper is to turn: foo bar into foo@defaultdomain.com bar@defaultdomain.com on separate lines, as chriss suggests. Further autocomplete hints (like putting red text after "foo bar") will have to wait until autocomplete is fully implemented.
I concur with Phil. Marking this beta1
Keywords: beta1
Putting on PDT+ radar for beta1.
Whiteboard: [PDT+]
I have a fix. Now if we don't find a match, I am extracting all the potential addresses from the search string and add to them if necessary a domain. However, in case of several addresses, The UI we show them on the same line with a comma separator. I am not creating new rows, we have already enough problem with the addressing widget. example: John Wayne@somewhere.com --> John@<domain>, Wayne@somewhere.com "John Wayne"@somewhere.com --> "John Wayne"@somewhere.com John, Wayne --> John@<domain>, Wayne@<domain>
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Whiteboard: [PDT+] → [PDT+]Fix in hand, waiting for review
Fixed and checked in
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Whiteboard: [PDT+]Fix in hand, waiting for review
Using trunk build 2000-03-30-09 on win98 -08 on linux and mac this is fixed per example of fix. Verified.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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