105205 - replying to mail sent from local domain fails

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Travis Crump]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011011
BuildID:    2001101117

Someone from my organization sent me a mail.  Since they are sending it from the
local domain(they are probably directly logged in to mail server(ie using pine
via ssh to the mail server), neither their return address nor my address include
the @domain part.  I attempt to reply to message by hitting reply.  I send my
reply.  Sending reply fails because user is not a valid e-mail.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.ssh to mail server
2.send mail to pretzalz
3.open up Mozilla mail and check mail
4.receive mail from myself
5.attempt to reply to message by hitting reply and then send

Actual Results:  sending reply fails because user couldn't be found.
Error Message:

An error occurred while sending mail.  The mail server responded: <pretzalz>...
User unknown.  Please check the message recipients and try again.

Expected Results:  At least this is what Eudora does:
@localdomain should be appended to all addresses of outgoing mail that don't
have an @domain part.  This is related to bug 93453.  Autocompleting the
localdomain when the user composes mail is inelegant, because of instances like
this where the reply address is automatically generated by mozilla and doesn't
include the @domain part.  Adding the localdomain is the expected result for
user and so should never make an address invalid, but not adding it will result
in an invalid address when localdomain is not the outgoing mail server which is
likely since it is possible to have multiple accounts with different
localdomains and it is recommended that they all use the same outgoing mail server.

I use an outgoing mail server(my local ISP) different from local domain and the
incoming mail server(incoming mail is obviously local domain) even though I only
have one mail account since I had non-Mozilla specific problems in using the
local domain as the outgoing mail server[refused to send messages outside
localdomain].

Workaround entails manually editing To: field when replying to a message so that
address includes @localdomain

Comment 1

[John Levon]

bug has sat here UNCO for 6 months ...

Comment 2

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Looks like you just get an error message from the server. I don't understand
what is different here from bug 93453.

Is that still happening anyways?

pi

Comment 3

[Arno Roefs]

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
Build: 2002053012

WFM