On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 17:30, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
it seems that it does. I just added "evolution users" <evolution ximian com> to my contacts database and then did a Reply-All to the message and then trimmed out the To: address (Not Zed) and then copied the "evolution users" string that represented the evolution ximian com address in the Cc: field and pasted it into the To: field and then deleted the Cc: field and hit Send, and you are right - the addressbook is not properly resolving the "evolution users" string into evolution ximian com and so feeds the mailer an empty address string for the To: field.
Yeah, actually, this is a regression from 1.0.x. In 1.0.x a string on
the To or Cc list would always get the underline magic (and hence, an
email address) automatically if it would fully match an entry in the
addressbook. This made cut & paste between the fields work (well, at
least for entries in the addressbook), and also made it harder for the
user to shoot him/herself in the foot by undoing the underlined state
accidentally (eg. in 1.2.1 if you remove the comma between two addresses
the underline disappears and if you add it again it doesn't come back
automatically -- and at that point it's not obvious to the user that
this means that the message won't be sent to that destination).
The following gives some insight on the history of the bug (yeah, it's a
really old one...):
http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7728
Chris, since this has been a fairly common source of complaint and is a
pretty serious regression from 1.0.x, can we do something about it in
1.2.2? I have set the target milestone in Bugzilla tentatively.
It is also good to have Fejj's patch in the mailer to make it a bit more
robust though...
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Ettore Perazzoli <ettore ximian com>
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