Closed Bug 1144295 Opened 9 years ago Closed 9 years ago

Autocomplete suggests "ghost" address (list of semicolon-separated addresses)

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

31 Branch
x86_64
Windows 7
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: thewheel1975, Unassigned)

Details

(Keywords: steps-wanted)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0
Build ID: 20150305021524

Steps to reproduce:

Type into the BCC address field


Actual results:

autofills non-sense string of addresses


Expected results:

nothing but what I type
Hi reporter, 
unfortunately this report is not very useful because it does not describe the problem well. If you have time and can still reproduce the problem, please read https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/QA/Bug_writing_guidelines and add a more useful description to this report.
Flags: needinfo?(thewheel1975)
Component: Untriaged → Message Compose Window
(In reply to David from comment Bug 380665 #2)
> I did not introduce the semicolons.
> There is no way to flush the autocomplete or to kill it?
> That is, I need to be able to delete it (an errant semicolon list) out of
> Thunderbird when it gets in there.
> The string is in neither of my address books. So where is it coming from?
> That needs a fix.

David, rest assured that TB can only suggest contacts which actually ARE in one of your address books.
So you should open your TB address book (Tools > AB) and search in every book separately (searching all books will be possible with TB38) for the offending entry.

Any other stubbornness beyond that is a bug in autocomplete which is on record, e.g. bug 1138033.
In fact, technically you might be seeing bug 1138033 which sometimes prevents correcting addresses as desired if autocomplete believes to know better.
Without further details from reporter, nothing we can do here.
Reporter (theweel...) pls reply.
Summary: Auto Incorrect email addresses → Autocomplete suggests "ghost" address (list of semicolon-separated addresses)
Whiteboard: [invalid?][closeme 2015-04-14]
more clarity needed from reporter
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Flags: needinfo?(thewheel1975)
Keywords: steps-wanted
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
Whiteboard: [invalid?][closeme 2015-04-14]
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