153632 - Can't enter more than 4 lines of To, CC, BCC fields, OR address book lookup broken on second/third/etc address entered on one line

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 94676

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Ian Batterbee]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611
BuildID:    2002061104

The composition window provides 4 lines to enter addresses into. By default,
this first line is set to "To:" and the other 3 are not set, but can be set to
CC, To, BCC etc.

In Netscape 4, when all 4 lines had been set, a vertical scrollbar and a 5th
(blank) line would appear, allowing an unlimited number of lines to be entered.

In Mozilla, there is no vertical scrollbar for this window area, and as such,
only 4 lines can be entered

If I use commas to enter multiple addresses on a single line, it breaks the
addressbook resolution (which also worked back in NS4 BTW).. eg, if I enter a
partial address, hit space, and wait 1/4 of a second, the address book matches
that address (as expected). If I hit comma, enter a second address, hit space,
it does not perform a lookup (perhaps this is the real bug here) 

So, to make the address book lookup work, I can only enter one address per line.
Since I can only enter 4 lines of addresses, I can only lookup 4 addresses.  (I
can kludge it by using one address line to do the lookups, and cut and paste the
result onto another line, then repeat until done)




Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. As above.. enter a partial address, wait for the match
2. Hit comma, enter another partial address.. watch moz fail to do a lookup.
3. Use a blank address line to work around the problem in (2). 
4. Run out of lines when you've done (3) 4 times.

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

you have to hit enter on the fourth entry to get the fifth (and subsequent)
entries.  does that not work for you?

Comment 2

[Ian Batterbee]

Ahhh.. yes.. it does work... when I know to use Enter :)

I'm used to NS4.7, where the up and down keys worked (to move up and down
between address lines), and the 5th line appeared automatically when the 4th
wasn't blank. I had no idea that enter did anything there, since I'm
instinctively hesitant to hit enter on a form (or in the composition dialog) as
I expected it would submit/send it.

I guess since CTRL-enter is needed to do this in the message window, then enter
is free to be used for other things..

Still.. the problem of the address book not resolving anything past the first
address on a line is valid.. does anyone know if that's a dupe of another bug..
I don't imagine that I'm the first to find that one, but I couldn't find
anything searching bugzilla.. (normally because someone entered it with
different terminology from what I searched for)

Comment 3

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

-->varada

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Per reporter, the multiple-lines aspect of this bug is WFM; the auto-complete of 
multiple addresses on a line is the duplicatee -- which also has several aspects 
about multiple lines handling.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 94676 ***

Comment 5

[Vedran Miletic]

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