220147 - Sending mail to an RFC822 "group" fails (legal address misparsed)

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Ted Leung]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827

When I reply all to an EzMLM moderation message I get five Cc: entries for the
this to line
To: Recipient list not shown;

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Receive a message a like the one in the attachment
2 [review]. Hit replay to all - look at the Cc: lines
3.

Actual Results:  
I got five Cc: Lines
Cc: Recipient
Cc: list
Cc: not
Cc: shown
Cc: ;

Expected Results:  
One Cc: line

Cc: Recipient list not shown;

Comment 1

[Ted Leung]

Attachment: this is a message that shows the behavior

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The exact symptom described does not occur for me with TB 1.0.2 nor 1.0+0416, 
Win2K.  I get a single CC line with "Recipient list not shown: ;".

Part of the problem is that TB (and Mozilla) does not support "address groups" 
-- which that address form is -- very well at all: bug 110605.

When I attempt to send a message to that address group, I get an error:
  The mail server responded: 5.1.1 <"Recipientlistnotshown:;">...
  User unknown. Please verify that your email address is correct...

A TB log of the SMTP process ends with these lines (everything previous is 
normal):
 0[2346c8]: SMTP Send: RCPT TO:<"Recipientlistnotshown:;">
 0[2346c8]: SMTP entering state: 0
 0[2346c8]: SMTP Response: 550 5.1.1 <"Recipientlistnotshown:;">... User unknown
 0[2346c8]: SMTP entering state: 7
 0[2346c8]: SMTP entering state: 12
 0[2346c8]: SMTP entering state: 13


Bug 242693 is about a general problem with semicolons in the address field, but 
is specifically about illegal use of semicolons.  The address you have specified 
is in fact legal (per the spec), but as seen above, is being misparsed.

Note that that the group in your example is empty, but it could contain multiple 
addresses as well.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

*** Bug 353064 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[David Woodhouse]

This bug is three years old and still in NEW state.

Comment 5

[Matěj Cepl]

Most likely duplicate of bug 83521 ?

Comment 6

[David Woodhouse]

Bug 83521 is about _using_ groups properly when you send mail to a list of people from your address book -- it's a feature request.

This one is about not screwing up when receiving mail with groups, or when the user manually _types_ a group into the address box.

They're certainly related -- but not necessarily duplicate.

This one could be considered a duplicate of 110605 though.

Comment 9

[Alessandro Vesely]

Just to make it clearer, the desired/expected behavior of Thunderbird is, if group syntax is used in To: or Cc: fields:

1: Accept the address in the field where it was given, but
2: don't try to extract a recipient from it; recipients should be given in other fields.

If group syntax is used in a Bcc: field:
1. Ignore it, but save the field in the draft for consistency.