173783 - address auto-completion doesn't always work - inconsistent behaviour after erasing a suggested address

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[David Campbell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

In certain circumstances, e-mail address completion fails to find an e-mail
address that does match.  I've outlined step by step how this can be reproduced.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open address book
2.Add an entry:  first name="Wooly", last name="Sheep", e-mail=[e-mail]
3.Add an entry:  first name="Angry", last name="Antelope", e-mail=[e-mail]
4.Close address book
5.Compose an e-mail
6.Click in the "To" field and type "Wooly" - watch it correctly come up with:
Wooly Sheep <[e-mail]>
7.Press the home key
8.Hold down shift and press the end key so that the previous entry is
highlighted and then release the shift key
9.Now quickly type "Angry" and watch it come up with something other than Angry
Antelope - for me it comes up with [e-mail] (my e-mail address is
in that domain).
I BELIVE THIS BEHAVIOUR TO BE WRONG
10.Now if you immediately repeat steps 7, 8 and 9 again, you get the correct
behaviour.
Actual Results:  
You get inconsistent behaviour - sometimes it does completion correctly and
other times you end up with something in your own e-mail domain.

Expected Results:  
I would expect completion to work every time, not just sometimes.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I was able to reproduce the symptoms, 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516

 -- but not reliably; sometimes it took two or three deletions before the 
problem exhibited itself.

Updating summary for a little more clarity.

Comment 2

[David Campbell]

Still present in 1.8a2.

Comment 3

[Giles Puckett]

I find with 1.8b1 that autocompletion doesn't work AT ALL if adding an
additional address under the one being replied to. This may well be a different
bug, however. Will submit if so advised. 

Compose a new mail works no problem.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I find with 1.8b1 that autocompletion doesn't work AT ALL if adding an
> additional address under the one being replied to. This may well be a
> different bug, however. Will submit if so advised. 
> 
> Compose a new mail works no problem.

First: I don't know why you'd say "may well be" a different bug -- it's quite 
obvious to me that it most definitely is a different bug.

Second: That problem has already been fixed -- bug 282645 -- which is why 
testers are asked to try a current build before reporting bugs at all.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I can't reproduce.
Is there a missing step?
Can anyone else reproduce?

Comment 6

[David Campbell]

I just tested with 2.0.0.23 and it still fails.  Reproducing this seems to depend on the speed of how fast you type.  But an alternative way to reproduce is as follows, using paste (which normally does complete, but in this circumstance, the same as typing quickly, doesn't).

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open address book
2.Add an entry:  first name="Wooly", last name="Sheep", e-mail=[e-mail]
3.Add an entry:  first name="Angry", last name="Antelope", e-mail=[e-mail]
4.Close address book
5.Compose an e-mail
5a.  Type "Angry" or "Angry Antelope" in the subject line (no quotes)
5b.  Highlight the contents of the subject line and then copy it
6.Click in the "To" field and type "Wooly" - watch it correctly come up with:
Wooly Sheep <[e-mail]>
7.Press the home key
8.Hold down shift and press the end key so that the previous entry is
highlighted and then release the shift key
9.Now paste with CTRL-V (or very quickly type "Angry" or "Angry Antelope") and watch it fail matching

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

thanks for retesting. however, v3.0 is where the action is, because it's substantially changed.  If someone who sees this can test v3 that would be great.
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Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

closing WFM based comment 5.
If you still see the problem using version 3. or 5, the pplease update the bug.