297301 - email address completion overrides full email address typed if I pause during typing

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 278398

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[raylau1234]

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If I am entering an email address that is not in my address book, but type too 
slowly (i.e., pause), and then hit enter, it uses a proposed match from my 
address book instead of the email address I typed in.

This is sinister bec. it has often resulted in misdirected email going to 
people in my address book.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Assuming your address book does not have any users with names like "hello" 
and you have email address completion turned on from local address books.

2. Create a new address book entry

First name: hello
Last name: world
email: [e-mail]

3.Ctrl M to compose a new msg.

4. In the 1st To: box, type "hello".  Then pause...  [e-mail] will 
flash.

5. Now continue typing QUICKLY "@bar.com<enter>".  (If you type slowly, it 
will work.)

Actual Results:  
The first To: box has the address from the address book [e-mail].

Expected Results:  
It should have the address I typed [e-mail]

This happens with 1.0.2 on both my desktop (faster CPU) and laptop.  I am 
proposing this as Major bec. in my experience, I've run into about 1-2 
misdirected emails as a result....

Comment 1

[raylau1234]

That's 1-2 misdirected emails per wk.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This sounds like bug 278398.  Reporter, if you agree, please mark this bug as a 
dupe of that one.

Comment 3

[raylau1234]

The very end of 278398 does sounds like the same thing... CR vs TAB is 
probably a trivial difference.  Marking as dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 278398 ***