139886 - [Select Addresses] window: '"a,b"<[e-mail]> ' got split into two addressees

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, defect)

Description

[tao]

2002-04-22-06 1.0 branch build

1. enter "a,b"<[e-mail]> into the addressing pane of the mail compose window.
2. click on the "Address" to open the "Select Addresses" window.
3. you will see two entries in the right pane: '"a' and 'b<[e-mail]>'.

Comment 1

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

This is an address book issue. Looks like the current code just split the
recipient list looking just for a comma instead of using the mime header parser
to do the correct job.

Comment 2

[Peter Snelling]

This bug is really bugging me.  All the addresses in our corporate directory are
of the format "a, b", so the "Select Addresses" window is almost unusable.  I'm
seeing this in Mozilla 1.3 on Linux (RH 8).

Comment 3

[Gyles Harvey]

Bug still present as of v1.6

Comment 4

[Jon Roland]

This is another bug that is annoying me. But the problem occurs even when there
is no comma in the name. An address of the form "First Last"
<[e-mail]> copied from the Address Book into the address line message
being composed doesn't immediately get split, but if I close the address book,
then re-open it again and examine the addresses, I find the addresses for which
the name is in quotes to be split with '"First' on one line and 'Last"
<[e-mail]> on the following line. Of course, an error is returned for
both lines and the message does go to that recipient. The problem does not
always occur. It is intermittent, but very common. One can fix the abberrant
behavior by manually correcting each address by cutting and pasting from one
line to the one above it, but when there are hundreds of recipients this can be
very tedious.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

"a,b"<[e-mail]> WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2)
Gecko/20050604