147918 - nested mailing lists do not get e-mails expanded

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 40301

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

Description

[Patrick Boisvenue]

A mailing list which is a member of another mailing will not have his e-mails
expanded at all.  Probably this is true for all OSes but not confirmed.  
To reproduce:
1) Create a mailing list (give a it weird name so that it won't match a valid
e-mail username) and add yourself to it.
2) Create another mailing list with the first one you created as the sole entry.
3) Send a test e-mail to the second mailing list, you will never get it since it
doesn't swap the first mailing list for the proper e-mail entries.

Have tried on 1.0RC1 and 1.0RC3 with same results.  Many co-workers used this
ability in the Netscape 4.x series so it's valuable to have.

Comment 1

[Calum Mackay]

Confirmed, Solaris/SPARC.

Is this working as designed? If so, it would be really nice to add support for
nested aliases. I think most other alias managers support this.

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 161906 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

hmm this looks like a duplicate of bug 40301 - resolving as such.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40301 ***

Comment 4

[Ninoschka Baca]

Verified Duplicate.