151814 - lists containing lists fail

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 40301

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

Description

[Rick DeZemplen]

In Mozilla 1.0 I created a mail list that contained a mail list.  When I try to 
send an email to the list that contained a list, I receive the following error 
message "An error occurred while sending mail.  The mail server responed: 5.1.1 
unknown or illegal alias: 'test list'.  Please check the message recipients and 
try again." where 'test list' is the "description" of the list that contained a 
list.  It appears that the email program is sending the name of the subordinate 
list directly to the mail server instead of expanding the list.

Comment 1

[Joseph Delaney]

this is also happening in Mozilla 1.2b 2002102203 on Mac OS X (Fizilla)

For what it's worth, it might be related to Bug 40301 although the bad behavior
shown hear is a seperate issue - Mozilla should not create and then try to send
invalid addresses to the server. 

Note that the "addresses" are never entered as addresses in the address book,
they are taken from the description of the lists. 

Comment 2

[Calum Mackay]

Confirmed, Linux/x86, 2002102811.

Comment 3

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

mass re-assign.

Comment 4

[Oliver Klee]

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