GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 252165
Evolution Mailer contact selection sometimes forces primary address
Last modified: 2013-09-10 14:02:59 UTC
Please fill in this template when reporting a bug, unless you know what you are doing. Description of Problem: Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Create a contact that has 3 e-mail addresses -- primary, email 2, and e-mail 3. Make sure that each e-mail address begins with the same user name but ends in a different domain. Use the same display name for all addresses. 2. Compose a new message. 3. Type the first few letters of the e-mail -- enough so that the e-mail list appears. 4. Select e-mail 2. 5. Verify that the To: field contains e-mail 2 by right clicking on the name in the To: field. 6. Right-click on the name in the To: field again and observe what appears as the address. Actual Results: The mailer shows the primary address. Expected Results: The mailer should show the E-Mail 2 address. How often does this happen? Everytime. Additional Information: The odd thing is that when I choose the E-Mail 3 address and repeatedly right-click on the name in the To: field, the e-mail address remains as the E-Mail 3 address, which is correct behavior.
sounds like an addressbook issue
i can reproduce this running evolution-2.0.3.0.200501070910-0.snap.ximian.10.1. i setup a new contact with four email addresses and do as described. when choosing the last (=fourth) one from the dropdown menu, it always remains the same and does not matter how often i right-click on it with the mouse. however, the second and the third email address become the primary one after looking for two times into the right-click menu in the to-composer field.
is this about re-ordering the e-mail addresses in the right click menu? this menu just lists all the e-mails of the contact and not the selected one. I think you wanted the re-ordering of email ids, to know which email has been put in to To: list by, autocompletion. Actually, showing the e-mail id along with name in the TO list will solve this issue. so marking this as a duplicate of 272391 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 272391 ***
This bug doesn't appear to be a duplicate. Let me be clear. After selecting "New" to compose a new message, if you select (left-click) the 2nd or 3rd choice in the list and you right click more than once on the name in the "To:" field to verify the selection, you will see the choice change back to the Primary. The problem is that my choice changed. It should have remained as choice 2, regardless of the number of times that I right click on the name in the "To:" field.
when you autocomplete a name with 3 address and select one of them (not primary) the mail is sent from the selected address only (not from primary id). and the right-click menu on the autocompleted address doesn't list the ids with selected id at the top, it lists in the sorted order.
Checked with evo 2.5.5. Doesn,t happen for me. The choice remians the same no matter what you do. Closing this as notabug, please reopen if it is found to happen again.
this is not "NOTABUG", this has been "FIXED". i remember that issue pretty well, and i cannot reproduce it either with 2.5.90. cool.