GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 229533
Email addresses lost when not selecting contacts or when pasting contact names
Last modified: 2003-06-20 22:18:47 UTC
If you type in the name of a contact, you get the drop-down list of matching contacts, from which one would ideally chose one. Then the contact name becomes underlined; if the message is sent, the associated email address is used. However, if you don't select a contact from the drop-down list and click send, Evolution will not complain that it doesn't have an email address. If there's only one contact that's not underlined at the time the message is sent, the server will complain, if there are other valid email addresses, however, it will not. Then the message will not be sent to all intended addressees. This is especially annoying if you cut-and-paste conatct names from, e.g., the CC line to the To line: then, Evolution will not give you the drop-downs, will not complain about not knowing which email addresses to use, and will silently lose the intended recipients from the outgoing message. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. New message 2. Type name of contact, but don't select from the matching contacts list 3. Click send Actual Results: Mail is delivered to SMTP server with empty To: line; SMTP server will complain with a "DATA response error". The message is left in the outbox. Another scenario: 1. Pick a message sent to a number of people, all of whom are in your contact list. 2. Hit Reply All: the sender contact will be in the To line, everyone else in the CC: line. 3. Select the CC line, Ctrl-X, click in To: line, type ', ' then Ctrl-V (all contacts are now in the To: line, but only the original sender is underlined) 4. Click "Send" Actual result: Message is only sent to original sender, not to anyone on the original CC: list. Neither Evolution nor the SMTP server complain. Expected Results: If there's only one matching contact, evolution should automagically look up the email addresses when sending. If there's more than one matching contact, or a matching contact has more than one email address, Evolution should pop up a dialog where the user can choose the email address. If there's no matching contact, it should complain and go back to the compose window. Plus, if there's an error sending the message, it should also go back to the compose window, not let the message rot in Outbox. This on 1.1 snapshot.
not a mailer bug
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 207728 ***